Unable to install Firefox or OpenOffice on a G3 under YDL 3.0.1

[Eric Dunbar]

AFAIK OOO requires you to do a _lot_ of upgrading of 3.0.1 components.
It's not something for the faint of heart. As for FireFox, you can d/l
0.10 or I have 0.9.3 on my YDL box (& still have the original RPM).

I haven't the foggiest clue if mere mortals can build FireFox from
source without doing quite a bit of fiddling (there's a reason Moz &
FireFox are waaay behind on YDL).

PS. There are two options to getting new FireFox and OO.org -- YDL 4.0
and Ubuntu 4.10.

...although, to get Ubuntu 4.10 on a Beige G3 will require a fiddling
with BootX since they don't officially support Old World machines yet
(someone wrote up a Wiki on how to do it), and I haven't seen any
comments on the YDL lists that people have installed YDL 4 on Beige
G3s... I'm holding off until I see evidence that others have
successfully installed YDL 4 on a Beige G3 _and_ aren't having
problems... my Beige G3 is doing wonderfully as a server & I'm not
about to mess with it only to have another batch of headaches

... besides, Ubuntu 4.10 on my Pismo is satisfying my Linux
experimentation urges (GNOME 2.8 and, my favourite, the Synaptic
Package Manager (it's a stunningly simple yet powerful package
manager... if you don't do anything overly complex you don't even have
to hit the command line to install packages)).

... though someone did get YDL 4.0 onto an 8600 IIRC but it seems that
they had to do a lot of fiddling to get it to install).

Eric.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:46:03 -0500 (EST), JGE <rcjge at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hey folks:
> 
> I'm frustrated all to hell at this point. I'm running YDL 3.0.1 on a
> G3/266-Beige. On the Mac partition is OS 8.6. I've downloaded (using
> Konqueror, because Mozilla won't open) Firefox and OpenOffice 1.1.3. I
> can't get either to install. The "tar" pkgs are in my home directory
> ./home/my user directory... they open as a text file! What am I doing
> wrong here?
> 
> Also on a PC running RH9 under System Settings/ there is an "Add/Remove
> Applications" applet. It does not appear under YDL 3.0.1. THey are both
> using Gnome.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.