FireFox

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

 YDL_4 is a FC2 clone so it provides mozilla-1.7.3 rather than firefox.

The code factory version is version 1.0, which runs fine. This version
was built on a debian system with static rather than shared libraries,
which is why it is portable. Keep that in mind when you explore rpms
from other distros.

Fedora's FC3 has source for version 1.0-8 if you want to try rolling
your own.  Be advised that building firefox takes an amount of time that
is slightly less than the age of the universe.


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:40, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:32:06 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Check out:
> > 
> >         http://www.thecodefactory.org/mozilla/
> > 
> > Works just fine...
> > 
> > ==================================================
> > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:22, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > > Hello all, is firefox part of YDL 4? I've examined the contents of my
> > > four YDL 4.0 install CDs and couldn't find any references to firefox
> > > (& my update doesn't seem to have installed a functioning firefox... I
> > > removed the 0.93 version that had been installed from FreshRPMs).
> 
> I take that to mean that FireFox *isn't* part of YDL 4???! I figured
> it wasn't installing b/c I'd done an upgrade-in-place from 3.0.1 to
> 4.0 (I wanted to confirm it wasn't me that had mucked things up...
> like I've mucked up KDE and some of its libraries... can't launch most
> KDE apps in GNOME and kdeinit doesn't want to work, period ;-).
> 
> The version at that link is relatively old (compared to what I'm
> running in that other Linux). Would it be possible to take a binary
> and use it in YDL 4 from that distro that dare not be named, or is
> there too much of a difference b/t Debian and FC for that to happen
> (too many dependencies in different places & different versions)?
> 
> Eric.

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