How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's " Check for Updates"?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Michael Thompson wrote:
>On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote:
>> This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of
>> Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has
>> version 3.6.2 out.
>>
>> Temlakos
>
>And OpenOffice is lagging behind too.
>
Ahh, but OOo is supplied in rpms:
[gene at coyote ~]$ rpm -qa|grep penoffic
openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-3.1-9420.noarch
openoffice.org3-base-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-calc-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-dict-es-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-en-US-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-impress-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-writer-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-dict-fr-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-dict-en-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9472.noarch
openoffice.org3-math-3.2.0-9483.i586
openoffice.org3-draw-3.2.0-9483.i586

So while the argument about FF may be valid to some purists, it is not valid 
for the true believers in rpm.

FWIW, FF-3.6.2 from mozilla hasn't appeared to interfere with anything.  It 
Just Works(TM) ANAICT.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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