Re: Broke gnome with new mozilla version

[Rick Horowitz <rickhoro yahoo com>]

As far as i know, I'm not using  Ximian - just
installed the standard RH 7.2. In fact, before your
msg, I didn't even know what it was. Thanks for the
advice and guidance.

Rick
--- Ian Peters <itp ximian com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 18:45, Rick Horowitz wrote:
> > I just made the mistake of installing the latest
> > versions of mozilla - 0.9.6 and galeon 1.0.1 via
> their
> > respective RPMs. Don't get me wrong - they're both
> > great programs - I like both very much,
> particularly
> > Galeon. The problem is I seem to have broken
> Nautilus
> > integration with the browser, and being new to
> Linux,
> > I could use some assistance with repairing the
> damage.
> > 
> > 
> > I can run Nautilus. The problem is when I click on
> a
> > menu or info item in Nautilus' Help tab,I get the
> > following message:
> > 
> > "The Web Page view encountered an error while
> starting
> > up."
> > 
> > BTW, I cheated a bit on the install. The package
> > mozilla-0.9.6-0 required mozilla-psm-0.9.6-0,
> which
> > required all sorts of other packages. I first
> tried to
> >  use RPM -U option to upgrade, but was told about
> all
> > sorts of dependencies. I made the (probably dumb)
> > decision to use RPM --force option - I think with
> > mozilla-psm-0.9.6-0. I then installed 
> mozilla-0.9.6-0
> > followed by galeon-1.0-1. 
> > 
> > Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Find RPMs of the older versions of mozilla and
> galeon, and install them
> (you'll need to use the --oldpackage flag to the rpm
> command, as well as
> -U).
> 
> If you're running Ximian GNOME, you can get them off
> of ftp.ximian.com.
> 
> Ximian GNOME users will get updated versions of
> these programs soon. 
> There's a reason we don't release packages of things
> the moment they
> come out, and that's to make sure that all of the
> software works
> correctly together.
> 
> In the future, avoid using the --force option to rpm
> when at all
> possible.  Be wary of those who advise you to use
> it; installation
> instructions that recommend --force are often a sign
> of people too lazy
> to figure out the right way to do things. 
> Dependencies are there for a
> reason -- to make sure you don't end up in the
> situation you're in right
> now.
> 
> -- 
> Ian Peters
> itp ximian com
> 


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