John Summerfield wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Paul A. Rombouts wrote:
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> My immediate problem is my preferred browser is Mozilla - er - Seamonkey. I couldn't find it with yum, nor with Google, nor can I see that anyone's asked about it for SL5.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have it? or should I just build it myself? Might have a src.rpm around here someplace....
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had the same problem and I actually asked about seamonkey for SL5 on
>>> this list before you did, John.
>>>
>>> I recommend building this src rpm from releases.mozilla.org:
>>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.2/contrib/FC_RPMS/source/seamonkey-1.1.2-1.src.rpm 
>>
>>
>> Hmm. A mere 34 mbytes. Okay, I pull bigger things through my modem. Thanks Paul.
> 
> Er:
> 15:05 [summer@numbat ~]$ sudo rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm /usr/src/re                        dhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-mail-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-chat-1.1.2-1.i386.rp                m /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey- dom-inspector-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm
> Password:
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:seamonkey              ########################################### [ 50%]
> error: %post(seamonkey-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
>    2:seamonkey-mail         ########################################### [100%]
> error: %post(seamonkey-mail-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> error: %preun(seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> 15:05 [summer@numbat ~]$


I am not exactly sure what is causing the rpm scriplets to fail in your 
case, but I recommend first completely uninstalling (using rpm -e) all 
the old seamonkey packages before installing the new ones.

There are some important differences between the way seamonkey is 
packaged in RHEL4 and in the rpms available from releases.mozilla.org.
For instance, in RHEL4 seamonkey is split into 10 packages:

   seamonkey
   seamonkey-chat
   seamonkey-devel
   seamonkey-dom-inspector
   seamonkey-js-debugger
   seamonkey-mail
   seamonkey-nspr
   seamonkey-nspr-devel
   seamonkey-nss
   seamonkey-nss-devel

The src rpm from releases.mozilla.org builds into only 5 binary packages:

   seamonkey
   seamonkey-chat
   seamonkey-dom-inspector
   seamonkey-js-debugger
   seamonkey-mail

Thus if you use "rpm -U" or "rpm -F" to upgrade, you will not get rid of 
all the old RHEL4 packages if you do not uninstall them first.


-- 
Paul A. Rombouts