[DC LoCo] QUESTION: Upgrading an app outside the package system

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Marti Martinson
<arthur.martinson at verizon.net> wrote:
> QUESTION: Would it not be better to just delete /opt/firefox when a
> later version (say, 8.1) comes out and unpack the new one RATHER than
> using the "Check Updates" under Help>About Aurora?

Given you'd probably have to be running the browser as *root* for it
to be able to write a new version into /opt, yes, unpacking a new one
is probably easier/safer.

And that was a confusing sentence to read, because there's another web
browser out there named "Arora".

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan