Hello:
I've just gotten a new Linux system with FC2, and I'm new to Linux, so I don't know what I'm doing yet. I just ran a RH update thing from this button on the toolbar at the bottom of my desktop. It is red with a "!". After working my way through the various wizards, it seemed to have completed the update. That's fine. However, something very strange has happened after doing this. When I start Mozilla now, there is no mail client anymore!!! (I'm using a webmail interface from my ISP to send this.) For the past several weeks since getting this new system, I've been using Mozilla for mail and news quite nicely. Now, the mail client is completely missing from Mozilla. Can someone please help by telling me how to get it back?
I haven't figured out how to get detailed system information yet, but I do find:
[pts/4][53][1:39:52]localhost% uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:00 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [pts/4][54][1:39:56]localhost% mozilla -version Mozilla 1.7.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org, build 2004080317
I should note that I've already tried installing a brand new mozilla downloaded from the mozilla website. However, the installer did not work; I'm guessing that is because it is not set up for a 64-bit system, but don't know that for certain.
I've also tried looking, unsuccessfully, for some sort of "backout" facility in the "up2date" tool. I don't know that there is such a thing; I just thought there might be.
I hope someone can please help me get my mail client back!
Thanks very much.
James
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 02:43, jmccarro wrote:
Hello:
I've just gotten a new Linux system with FC2, and I'm new to Linux, so I don't know what I'm doing yet. I just ran a RH update thing from this button on the toolbar at the bottom of my desktop. It is red with a "!". After working my way through the various wizards, it seemed to have completed the update. That's fine. However, something very strange has happened after doing this. When I start Mozilla now, there is no mail client anymore!!! (I'm using a webmail interface from my ISP to send this.) For the past several weeks since getting this new system, I've been using Mozilla for mail and news quite nicely. Now, the mail client is completely missing from Mozilla. Can someone please help by telling me how to get it back?
You need the mozilla-mail package installed. Do you have it?
rpm -q mozilla-mail
If that returns nothing, try getting and installing the RPM manually:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/x86_64/moz...
(or a local mirror may be faster).
Paul.
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 02:43, jmccarro wrote:
... Now, the mail client is completely missing from Mozilla. Can someone please help by telling me how to get it back?
You need the mozilla-mail package installed. Do you have it?
rpm -q mozilla-mail
If that returns nothing, try getting and installing the RPM manually:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/x86_64/moz...
(or a local mirror may be faster).
Paul.
Hello Paul:
Thank you very much for your reply. When I try the command you give above, I get the following output:
[pts/4][23][16:46:24]localhost% rpm -q mozilla-mail mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0
This seems to indicate that the system thinks this package is present. I also see these files are present (I'm not sure what to conclude from this, though):
/var/spool/up2date/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.i386.hdr /var/spool/up2date/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.x86_64.hdr
Is it likely, or even possible, that when I ran the update facility, it tried to install this package but the installation failed in some way? There is no messenger.jar in /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.2/chrome/, although the directory /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.2/components/ does appear to contain files related to mail (guessing from their names).
Now, I did manage to build a complete Mozilla, including mail, from the source distribution (downloaded from mozilla.org). It seems to work okay (I'm using it now to write this), except that the system (desktop) does not appear know about it.
Thanks,
James
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:29, James McCarron wrote:
Thank you very much for your reply. When I try the command you give above, I get the following output:
[pts/4][23][16:46:24]localhost% rpm -q mozilla-mail mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0
This seems to indicate that the system thinks this package is present.
Indeed it does.
I also see these files are present (I'm not sure what to conclude from this, though):
/var/spool/up2date/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.i386.hdr /var/spool/up2date/mozilla-mail-1.7.2-0.2.0.x86_64.hdr
Is it likely, or even possible, that when I ran the update facility, it tried to install this package but the installation failed in some way? There is no messenger.jar in /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.2/chrome/, although the directory /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.2/components/ does appear to contain files related to mail (guessing from their names).
If you do "rpm -ql mozilla-mail" you'll get a list of the files included in the package.
I don't know what's wrong now to be honest.
Paul.