Re: Netscape or Mozilla as an rpm instead of tar or tar.gz

Jeffrey Siegal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John Boyle wrote:
> To anyone: How come Netscape or Mozilla is not made as a rpm instead of 
> tar or tar.gz? First of all, there are no real instructions on how to 
> translate the tar or tar.gz, they always leave out a step or ASSUME you 
> know how!! I have been able to work with rpm's well, but, for instance, 
> cannot get the Flash plugin translated and installed, no matter what I 
> have tried. Why does the Mozilla .org, which claims it wants more 
> customers, not make the programs both ways, leaving it to the individual 
> to choose which he can work with?

You can get the RPMs you want from Red Hat or other distribution 
vendors, as well as from various independent RPM repositories.
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