<p dir="ltr">Since you have an ancient Firefox, run rpm -ql Firefox to find where it's parts are and replace them with the ones from the tar ball.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What will cause pain are plugins.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can dump the tar ball in use local and add a path entry.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 15, 2014 10:49 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I ought to know the answer to this question, but I do it so seldom that I have forgotten how.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Temporarily still running an out of date Fedora.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Want to update Mozilla Firefox.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Downloaded the current file: firefox-27.0.tar.bz2</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I can unpack the tarball and run the executable from the command line.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">BUT . . . .</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I'd really like to install it in the correct place in /usr so that the desktop icon can find it.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">yum localinstall <fullpath> sounds like the sort of thing I need, but the man page doesn't give me any confidence that will work.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">failing that, I can create a link to the file on the Desktop, but clicking on the icon doesn't run the executable.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">So how do I properly install this tarball in the correct place or get yum to do it for me?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Sean</p>
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