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fedora core 5 and firefox

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sonoma1993

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I downloaded the newest version of firefox 1.5.0.7 to update the current version thae came with fedora core 5 which 1.5.0.1. But I have no clue were to extract the files to or how to install it. I looked on the firefox site. It said jus extract the files to were you want it installed. I want to overwrite the old files with the newer ones.
 
I linux systems you generally want to use the package management software provided by your paticular distribution.

Software isn't installed like it is with Windows generally such as with a install sheild type thing (although sometimes you do that).

For instance with firefox Fedora will provide a firefox rpm package which you can download and install and it'll take care of the old package and files and such for you.

However instead of downloading and installing *.rpm files manually you can use a tool called yum to automate all that for you.

To update your Fedora Core 5 system with the latest updates and patches for all the provided software (instead of 'just' firefox or 'just' the core OS) you would simply run:
yum update

And let it do it's thing.

Installing software seperately using generic installers is generally a bad thing. However if you realy realy want to use the firefox from Mozilla's website uninstall the current firefox version first using yum.


See also:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/
http://www.fedoraforum.org/
 
anyway to get macromedia flash player to work with fedora core 5? firefox will download it and install it but. anytime the page refresh, it still ask for a flash player to be install.
 
Not sure on that one. Sounds like a bit of a bug.

I've always just had Firefox install the flash plugin for me and it tended to work.
Make sure that it's not a Flash version 8 thing or a Shockwave media thing your trying to play.. Macromedia hasn't released support for that for Linux. (Flash 9 support is suppose to be in the works)

Try macromedia's flash test site or something like that.


Otherwise if you look at that unofficial Fedora FAQ website I posted above they have a special yum configuration that adds extra repositories which include a package for flash. They also have a work around for a bug in flash. So if you want to go by that then you download and install their yum configuration and then update against that, then install flash-plugin then do the quick fix. Details are outlined on that page. Hopefully that will work.
(for command line snippets you can copy and paste by highlighting the text and then clicking with the middle mouse button on the terminal)
 
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