[wellylug] trouble installing firefox into Mandrake 10.1

[Cliff Pratt]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:55, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 
>>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
>>
>>>>Is there any reason you can't use a package? Assuming that
>>>>there is a package and/or you really need 1.0?
>>>
>>>I went to easyurpmi but didn't really understand how it works and so far
>>>haven't found any real documentation to explain it to me.  I am currently
>>>downloading rpm for it, so hope that will be easier.
>>
>>It's a good bet that if there is an rpm for it it will be
>>easier.
> 
> Yes  it very much easier and I've used it - so very happy.
> 
It will repay you heaps to understand the packaging system 
of your distro of choice. I always try all sources to find a 
package rather than use a tarball (gzipped or not).

Packages go on and more importantly update and remove much 
more easily than a tar.gz file.

Cheers,

Cliff