On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) wrote:
> I decided to try to upgrade firefox on my linux box (suse 10.2) to version
> 3.
Was FF 2 installed by YaST? If not, you probably can't upgrade it through
YaST. Normally, a package management system has no knowledge of what you do
outside of it, and will happily install a parallel version. If you
installed from tarball the first time, you need to remove the existing
version first, then go ahead with the version 3 install.
> YaST showed only version 2 (and also kept crying out for the installation
> discs, which I think are owned by my brother's former employer)
That can probably be changed, but as I'm not a YaST guru, I don't know how.
Google for |yast "installation path"|; maybe that'll get it.
> the thing is - the entire firefox 3 directory is on the desktop of the
> user that uses the DVR. I know that's not where it should live, but I dont
> know where to move it, and what I might break if I try (i think Windows
> Registry has me spooked for life)
There is no Registry in Linux. Or MacOS. Or SunOS. Just Windows.
If that's the source directory (no binaries), and it's all one big partition
anyway, it isn't a space issue as to where you put it, only a philosophy
one. If it's source, /usr/src is a good place. If it's compiled, maybe
/usr/local or /opt.
If it's owned by another user and you try to compile in that directory,
you'll probably have problems. You either need to do a "chown -R" on it, or
build in another directory.
> any suggestions? (Dennis' Linux book has been on the floor for months - I
> took a break to peek into Windows Networking and Server 2003 and then I
> just overloaded, and now I'm reading about surgical interns - not that I
> want to be one, I'm just tired)
>
> I'm sure it will continue to work as long as I am "couch" but... I get a
> little anxious when things are in the wrong place - not that this machine
> is being backed up really at all. (not a good thing. but hey, at least its
> not using LVM this time, as it was last time a drive died)
If you have carpet, computers on the floor suck in a lot more dust.
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