How to remove mozilla properly?

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Vinicius wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to remove the following mozilla's packages:
> mozilla-1.7.2-0.2.0, mozilla-chat-1.7.2-0.2.0, mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0,
> mozilla-nspr-1.7.2-0.2.0 and mozilla-nss-1.7.2-0.2.0, but the command
> "rpm -ev ..." shows:
> 
> rpm -ev mozilla-1.7.2-0.2.0 mozilla-chat-1.7.2-0.2.0
> mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0 mozilla-nspr-1.7.2-0.2.0
> mozilla-nss-1.7.2-0.2.0
> erro: Failed dependencies:
>         libgtkembedmoz.so is needed by (installed)
> liferea-0.5.3-2.b.1.fc2.dag
>         libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) liferea-0.5.3-2.b.1.fc2.dag
>         libnspr4.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libnspr4.so is needed by (installed) liferea-0.5.3-2.b.1.fc2.dag
>         libplc4.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libplc4.so is needed by (installed) liferea-0.5.3-2.b.1.fc2.dag
>         libplds4.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libplds4.so is needed by (installed) liferea-0.5.3-2.b.1.fc2.dag
>         libnss3.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libnss3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libnss3.so(NSS_3.3) is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libsmime3.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libsoftokn3.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libssl3.so is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
>         libssl3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by (installed) gaim-0.82-0.FC2
> 
> Can I ignore this dependencies?

Well - you'll have to remove those packages as well (assuming you are
not using them).

> I would like to install the mozilla 1.7.3 (through
> mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.3-full-installer.tar.gz), this is why
> I want to remove the mozilla 1.7.2.

Hmm.. not a good idea. You could install this in a different location
temporarily - and use it. (without removing 1.7.2)

Or just wait for the official updates (assuming FC2 here).

Alternatively grab the 1.7.2.src.rpm - and 1.7.3.tar.bz2 file - modify
mozilla.spec file and build 1.7.3.rpm files.

This is what I've done on FC1. (no mozilla updates for FC1 in a long
time). The only issue I have is - the rpm files are 10 times larger
than downloadable binaries (1.7.2) - and I don't know why.. This
should be temporary until prebuilts for FC1 appear at (so not a big
deal):
http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases

Satish