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

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?
> 
tried

man gzip
man tar

?

Making RPMs will make the package quite operating system dependent, of course 
they could release a mozilla.src.rpm, that would be possible to build on those 
system using RPM, but would be a bit overkill. You do get RPMs from your OS 
distrobuter. I do recommend you use those over rleases released at 
mozilla.org, as they fit your system a lote better.


  //Aho