Upgrade downgrades Firefox

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 11:18 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: 
> --- 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.
> 
> B

The Firefox from Mozilla is not an rpm. Yum install will not install 3.6
from the normal repositories.
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