On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 08:45, Craig Brooksby wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I represent the extreme newbie subgroup in PLUG.  I hope the rest of you
> don't mind too much.  If I am too far off-topic, please reply off-list.
> 
> I installed RedHat9.  The Mozilla version is 1.2.  I tried to install a
> current release of Mozilla, but now I seem to have Mozilla in many
> places:  in /usr/bin, in /usr/lib, oin 'usrlocal...   One article I read
> seems to expect Mozilla to be in /uselocal/lib...
> 
> I can only execute the updated version if I log in as root.  It's a
> mess.
> 
> I desire to uninstall?  remove?  all these various Mozilla files, and do
> a clean reinstall -- one copy of Mozilla in one place.  One copy usable
> by both root and me.
> 
> In good old WinXP, "the place" was under Program Files.  That's where
> the executables were.  Where is "the right place in this case?
> 
> Can someone guide me through the cleanup / reinstall process??  Many
> thanks --
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Can only guide you through the process if we knew what the process was
that you used to install the second version.

Assuming that you downloaded a tarball into /tmp and then ran 'tar zxvf
Mozilla-1.4.1.tar.gz' - it created a directory in /tmp called
Mozilla-1.4.1 - you would 'cd /tmp/Mozilla-1.4.1' and then type 'make
uninstall'

As for recommendations - it will probably be easier for you to use
redhat based RPM files and use the rpm -Uvh Mozilla-whatever to install
updates as these will update the existing instead of creating another
set of directories for the binaries. Sometimes you can get updates from
rawhide (you definitely can for Mozilla) and a project such as Mozilla
is likely to have binaries (RPM files) for RH9 already. One last option
is to remove both copies of Mozilla (the tar file as described above and
the rpm's as described by Bryce) and then install apt-get (suggest
http://www.freshrpms.net) and then you can use apt-get to install/update
Mozilla

Craig

Craig