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.