newbiew help - upgrades

[shlomibt]

hi friends,
i'm new to suse....
i'm looking for couple of things which i'm ...
1. how do i upgrade firefox to a new version - current installed version is 2
and i would like to switch to 3.
i tried downloading the file and follow a note i found in one of the forums - but
than it starts yelling that othet stuff is missing like gtk...

i know from that there is an "easy" way to do that by requsting the package
but i couldn't find the place where i can find the server and rpm file - i don't
know how to use that...
2. is there a place where i can find a decent book on the net which will help me
start understanding what's going on...
Thanks in advance,

[oz]

For upgrading packages in the *buntu distros, it's usually as simple as using Synaptic to upgrade them, or you can use apt from the command line:

sudo apt-get install package_name

...of course the package you want has to reside in your enabled package repositories.

For some free online books, do a forum search in the Coffee Lounge for ebooks, or books. The links to them have been posted there countless times.

[hazel]

Oops! It looks to me as if this was posted in the wrong forum. If it's SuSE you're using and not one of the *buntus, you install compiled programs via the YaST control centre. There's a SuSE forum a little further down the page...

[oz]

oops... I missed the bit about Suse.

...moving to Suse forum.