Fedora Core 4

[Parky_007]

Hello, I am new to linux (installed it last week).
I am using fedora core 4 and it has firefox 1.0.4 and i ran yum and it updated to version 1.0.7. I went on the firefox website and tryed to download 1.5 but it came as .tar.gz and i know thats an archive but how do i update the version i got with the new version?

Thanks, Rowan.

 

[Veurruckte]

I looked around and couldn't find the RPM binary. Can you just compile it? Or use my favorite browser opera .

 

[dragon2309]

can you not just unpack/unzip the archive and install it from there????

 

[Parky_007]

well.. i am a real begginer, how would i do that?

Thanks, Rowan.

P.S. I'll check out opera.

 

[Veurruckte]

If it's a tar/gz archive, then do the following in a shell.

$ gunzip Name-Of-Archive.tar.gz
$ tar -xf Name-OfArchive.tar
$ cd Name-Of-Firefox-Directory
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

If you're not up to that use opera or find the binary.

 

[Parky_007]

opera seems cool, but the stupid mail thing is annoying.
I'm going to stick with this version of firefox for now, but hopefully, when i upgrade to FC5 when its out it will have firefox 1.5. Thanks for giving me a basic instructions to installing something. does that put its self on the menu or not?