Les Mikesell wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
level. RHEL5 is still shipping Firefox 1.1.5 AFAIK, and equally ancient
versions of other applications. That may be fine for enterprise
managers, but many single users and developers would like to be able to
keep up with application and toolchain advances.
RHEL5 has the latest 1.5 firefox - but you can easily install 2.0 if
you want to. In fact, RHEL has even created a directory called
/usr/local just to make it easier for you.
How do you install a copy that will update itself automatically when
security updates are issued?
Install it in your home directory and use the FireFox update utility -
just like you have to in Windows or OS X. Or use a FF2 rpm from a third
party repo.
Which means that's probably not the best way to get current versions of
firefox, thunderbird, and OpenOffice.
Right - but there are third parties that provide yum-able updates for
all of those if you want them.
You aren't from around here, are you?
I sure am - I see questions asked and answered all the time about how to
get those things to work.
