[ale] Staying current with mainstream distribution

James Taylor James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
Wed Jul 21 15:20:55 EDT 2004


SuSE often does their own thing with some of the apps they include to
provide better integration.  Thunderbird, Firefox and Mozilla for
example.
If you want to retain this functionality, you need to use their
specific rpm builds.

A number of updates are available at ftp.suse.com.  Look in the
projects and supplemental directories.  Updates are available for
Mozilla and Firefox.  You can also specifiy the supplemetal directory as
an additional installation source and update KDE to 3.2.2.  It will take
awhile, though.  Took me more than an hour with a T1.

-jt


James Taylor
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>>> esoteric at 3times25.net 7/21/2004 3:02:24 PM >>>
BruceG wrote:

>       Are there any tools in the SuSE world that will let me upgrade
to the 
> latest packages, or do I just wait for the most recent release and do
an 
> upgrade of all packages? Does Ximian red-carpet offer that kind of
service, 
> and is it at cost?

Not to my knowledge, I generally build from source anything I want to 
upgrade.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User
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