updating linux software

[Alex]

new linux user here... givin mandriva le2005 a shot... like it so far!

firefox 1.0.2 is installed here and i'd like to upgrade to 1.0.4 (already downloaded...) what is the best way to go about this? i realize uninstalling/installing software in linux is slightly different than windows!

sorry for the n00b question!
PEACE!

 

[daniel49]

I am also very new. I have found on fedora all the packages that came with the system can be updated from the desk top with a prog called up to date. It downloads the headers and then gives you the option to update them firefox was one of them. Your distro probably has something similar.
Yum and apt are also installers for checking repo's or repositories of software for your distro. I just installed real audio10 for mp3's because I couldn't get any of the players on the fedora distro to play them..that came from real audio site.

Good luck you will probably get a much better answer from someone else but hope this helps.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: franguinho
new linux user here... givin mandriva le2005 a shot... like it so far!

firefox 1.0.2 is installed here and i'd like to upgrade to 1.0.4 (already downloaded...) what is the best way to go about this? i realize uninstalling/installing software in linux is slightly different than windows!

sorry for the n00b question!
PEACE!

Not sure about Mandriva. They previously had the 'urpmi' tools to try to automate upgrading, which worked. Since they combined with connectiva I don't know for sure.

Other distros are different. For instance I like Debian which uses Apt-get for package handler.
To upgrade everything I'd go:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

And taht would update everything I have installed that I installed thru apt-get or normal Debian installs and such. With those 2 commands basicly downloads a list of aviable packages and their versions from online file servers (as listed in my /etc/apt/source.list file), checks it against my currently installed packages then downloads and installs anything that has a newer aviable version.

Also does a bit of intellegent package checking for dependancies and such.

If I was using Fedora they have Yum setup to do the same thing, and Ubuntu uses apt-get since it's based on Debian.

The fool proof way for any Linux distro is to manually check out their ftp servers and see if they have the version you want.

Guys at http://mandrivausers.org/ will probably be able to give you the best advice on what to do. Check out the Easy-urpmi stuff, I am guessing.

 

[Hyperblaze]

For mandrake, unless they changed things drastically since I last used it, they have a software application called "software update" where you can easily update any package that you click on (and it'a dependecies will always be updated)

for the distro I use now (gentoo) i just type in

emerge --sync (to update my tree of software)

and then emerge system (to update it)

or emerge <software package> and it will get updated

 

[Alex]

i tried running the software update and it asks me to register at mandrake club or something wtf...

what will happen if i manually install the new firefox rpm?

 

[Soffty]

Hey guys, I'm no Linux expert but i'm sure if you have tried Linux well you will have heard of Yum. Well search and download YumEX for Linux... It's a program installer and unistaller and also updater and it has a VERY EASY gui. NO command line needed as far as i know. TRy searching around for it.

Hope it helps .

Soff

 

[Enfer Singe]

Originally posted by: franguinho
new linux user here... givin mandriva le2005 a shot... like it so far!

firefox 1.0.2 is installed here and i'd like to upgrade to 1.0.4 (already downloaded...) what is the best way to go about this? i realize uninstalling/installing software in linux is slightly different than windows!

sorry for the n00b question!
PEACE!

assuming you know basics of urpmi and have sources installed, you can just use 'urpme mozilla-firefox', which uninstalls it, and then install the new one (by either using the package you already have, or typing 'urpmi mozilla-firefox').

By the way, forgot to say this, I think Yum is only for fedora. I believe urpmi is basically the equivalent for Mandriva, although I have never used fedora.

 

[Nothinman]

what will happen if i manually install the new firefox rpm?

Don't do that, you want to stick with your distribution's packages as much as possible for consistency's sake.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Enfer Singe

Originally posted by: franguinho
new linux user here... givin mandriva le2005 a shot... like it so far!

firefox 1.0.2 is installed here and i'd like to upgrade to 1.0.4 (already downloaded...) what is the best way to go about this? i realize uninstalling/installing software in linux is slightly different than windows!

sorry for the n00b question!
PEACE!

assuming you know basics of urpmi and have sources installed, you can just use 'urpme mozilla-firefox', which uninstalls it, and then install the new one (by either using the package you already have, or typing 'urpmi mozilla-firefox').

By the way, forgot to say this, I think Yum is only for fedora. I believe urpmi is basically the equivalent for Mandriva, although I have never used fedora.

will try this thanks!