On 12/27/05, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked > > for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in > > Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some > > concerns that I would like some input on: > > 1) If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox. > > Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway? > > 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in > > /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in > > /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side? > > 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to > > start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by > > side? If not, how do I correct it? > > I have installed Firefox 1.5 while keeping the FC stuff there. What I > did was to download the tarball from www.getfirefox.com into /usr/local > so that the executable is /usr/local/firefox/firefox. Then I > edit /etc/profile, putting /usr/local/firefox into the PATH environment > variable. The way I do it is to add this line: > > PATH="/usr/local/firefox:$PATH" > > directly above the line that reads: > > export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC > > When anyone logs in, Firefox 1.5 is ahead of everything else in their > search path. > > This is not elegant, but it does work pretty well. > > There are other ways of doing it, but this quick-n-dirty hack works OK > for me. > > TC > This is not working for me. I took the line back out. How can I make it so that when the command "firefox" is given at the command line, it opens 1.5 and not 1.0.7? I don't want to simply change the file associations in KDE. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_monitors.html (
