Firefox as default browser in Fedora

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Fri Feb 13 22:53:24 UTC 2004


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:36:05PM -0800, Vincent wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:00, stark wrote:
> > > created fedora extras repository when it becomes available.
> > 
> > OK, I'd settle for this.
> > 
> > But seeing as it's not available, how about some INCLUDED docs
> > indicating how to get these apps?  I moved to Fedora from FreeBSD
> > and found getting yum and apt-get working very difficult and poorly
> > documented.
> > 
> > I don't care _how_ I just want to be able to find out the answer :)
> > 
> > Dana Lacoste
> > 
> 
> The Fedora FAQ has a great yum.conf
> http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/samples/yum.conf
> just throw that file in /etc and uncomment the DaG repositories for
> Firefox

But that's no use for a newbie. Can't a package be created for FC inclusion
with menu entries for installation of 3rd party software? Like java,
firefox, flash, etc.?

Regards,
Luciano Rocha





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