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From: Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
To: Dan Bentson-Royal <dbentson@lcsd.k12.wa.us>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mozilla update - EZ question
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 06:15:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aci1b2$phc$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1022109312.11952.22.camel@ltsp1>

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:15, Dan Bentson-Royal wrote:

BTW your origanal mail had an invalid header in the To field.

> I just re-read my earlier post and saw it was less than clear. I will
> repost again to try and clean it up a bit...
>
> I have just installed RH7.2 and when I ran Mozilla for the first time, it
> suggested that, for security reasons, Mozilla needed to be upgraded. I
> fumbled around between the GUI and terminal windows and finally got the
> latest release of Mozilla downloaded and installed. For me, this was a big
> step and quite a coup. However...
>
> As root running Gnome, I have the Gnome icon for Mozilla properly pointing
> to the location of the new version of Mozilla - which is:
> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla
>
> But my non-root user's Gnome-Mozilla icon (the lizard head) does not
> point to that new install of Mozilla - it invokes the old installation.
> I could manually change it, but I know there must be some way to have
> this updated for all users. Is that correct? So that when I create
> accounts on this machine, they will all use this newest version of
> Mozilla. Should I delete the old version and move the new one into the
> same location (/usr/bin/mozilla)?

I can think of several ways, however i think the easiest would be to simply 
delete the old version or rename it, then create a symlink in /usr/bin called 
mozilla.
ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla mozilla
AFAIK that should work.

-- 
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-23  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <F4D3DB9A18752A4F99FD880ABC5407179D13A1@ccdc-exchg.careerco mmunity.com>
2002-05-22  6:21 ` Network and Apache Question Ray Olszewski
2002-05-22 20:02   ` My first Mozilla install Dan Bentson-Royal
2002-05-22 23:15     ` Mozilla update - EZ question Dan Bentson-Royal
2002-05-23  6:13       ` Richard Adams
2002-05-23  6:15       ` Richard Adams [this message]

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