On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 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. Did you log out and log back in after changing /etc/profile? This method has worked for me for years. TC
