Upgrade downgrades Firefox

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Sun, 2/21/10, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 13:57 +0800, Ed
> Greshko wrote: 
> > Marcel Rieux wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Patrick Bartek
> <bartek047 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > >   
> > >> --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>     
> > >>> I was running Firefox 3.6.? and
> [big snip]
> 
> This morning when I openned firefoc I got an offer to
> download firefox
> 3.6. A bz2 was downloaded and extracted. But no
> instructions appeared
> onn how to install it. How can it be installed? Or should
> it be
> installed this way?

As root, cd to the directory where the rpm is and

  rpm -ivh <rpmpackagename>

will do it.  However, I prefer, as root,

  yum localinstall <pathtorpm>

which will handle dependencies, if any.

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