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Neil Winchurst wrote: >> > I am using Mandriva2006. I have extracted Firefox (latest version) in my > home folder and it runs the happily. Well at the end of the day this is the main thing. :-) I did try to > extract it in /usr/local but I had permission problems which I could > not be bothered to sort out. > Probably you should untar the file in your home directory then afterwards as root move the folder to where you want it, then set the permissions and ownership of the fodler and files. > I suppose I could > remove the old version, but with such large disk capacities nowadays it > hardly seems worth it. Tidiness, i like things to be in the proper location and have consistency. Makes it easier to firefight *if* somthing goes wrong and you only have one copy of stuff not multiple different versions than may or may not be in use. If you do want to remove the old thunderbird something like rpm -e mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-60mdk will do it or something or use kpackage or some other graphical front end to the package tools. The only problem is upgrades if you upgrade your distribution then your manual install of thunderbird will not upgrade and could even break if the libc changes. You can get the latest thunderbird as a rpm for example http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2805777/com/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.2-0.1.20060.SoS.i586.rpm.html But this could open a can of worms with dependency hell, urpmi is your friend on rpm based systems for this. Sorry i went on so much !!! Robin
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