On 05/30/2010 05:43 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg informed us: > MHR wrote: > >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robert<kerplop at sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >>> O.K., errands finished, the rebuilt rpm installed using yum --nogpgcheck >>> localupdate /path/to/rpm with no problems, no dependencies. Mail, >>> preferences, plugins and helpers work as far as I've tested. And email >>> address hinting is fixed! Many thanks.. >>> > you're welcome, glad it helped! > > >> I am glad to hear this, but it really would have been a whole lot >> simpler just to install the official release tarball.... >> > rpmbuild --rebuild isn't so complicated, and I find having almost > everything in rpms is comfortable. > Also, once the rpm is built on one system you can install it everywhere. > That can be very convenient, depending on how many desktops/laptops you > have. > That, plus, if there are any unsatisfied dependencies, they'll get pulled in from trusted repos. I'll admit that that is probably unlikely with an updated CentOS 5 and Seamonkey, but having been burned really bad, trying to cram CUPS into RedHat 7.2, I try to avoid tarballs unless they're part of a well-documented procedure such as that published by ATI (AMD) for their proprietary video drivers. Even then, I elect to create an RPM and install it. Old farts gather a lot of paranoias, Marc. Thanks for pushing me off TDC, though, and thanks even more for the "hung sound" info!