Les Mikesell wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> level. RHEL5 is still shipping Firefox 1.1.5 AFAIK, and equally ancient
>> versions of other applications. That may be fine for enterprise
>> managers, but many single users and developers would like to be able to
>> keep up with application and toolchain advances.
>
> RHEL5 has the latest 1.5 firefox - but you can easily install 2.0 if
> you want to. In fact, RHEL has even created a directory called
> /usr/local just to make it easier for you.
How do you install a copy that will update itself automatically when
security updates are issued?
Install it in your home directory and use the FireFox update utility -
just like you have to in Windows or OS X. Or use a FF2 rpm from a third
party repo.
Which means that's probably not the best way to get current versions of
firefox, thunderbird, and OpenOffice.
Right - but there are third parties that provide yum-able updates for
all of those if you want them.
You aren't from around here, are you?
I sure am - I see questions asked and answered all the time about how to
get those things to work.