[ale] install/update

[Jim Kinney]

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.

What will cause pain are plugins.

You can dump the tar ball in use local and add a path entry.
On Mar 15, 2014 10:49 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I ought to know the answer to this question, but I do it so seldom that
> I have forgotten how.
>
> Temporarily still running an out of date Fedora.
>
> Want to update Mozilla Firefox.
>
> Downloaded the current file: firefox-27.0.tar.bz2
>
> I can unpack the tarball and run the executable from the command line.
>
> BUT . . . .
>
> I'd really like to install it in the correct place in /usr so that the
> desktop icon can find it.
>
> yum localinstall <fullpath> sounds like the sort of thing I need, but the
> man page doesn't give me any confidence that will work.
>
> failing that, I can create a link to the file on the Desktop, but clicking
> on the icon doesn't run the executable.
>
> So how do I properly install this tarball in the correct place or get yum
> to do it for me?
>
> Sean
>
>
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