installing Firefox 2.0 on FedoraCore6
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 8 17:39:05 UTC 2007
Andrea Mastellone <andrea.mastellone <at> fastwebnet.it> writes:
> yum update -y firefox --enablerepo=development
Ugh, updating from development (Rawhide) isn't that great an idea (you'll have
to fetch several packages which depend on Firefox from development too, and
this could potentially draw in plenty of unstable packages).
Rémi Collet has backported Firefox 2 from Rawhide to FC6 and rebuilt the FC6
packages which depend on Firefox for it (the FC6 versions, not the Rawhide
ones).
http://remi.collet.free.fr/
Here's the latest version:
http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2007/02/01/286-firefox-2001-3fc6
There's also a parallel-installable firefox2 by Gawain Lynch and Thorsten
Leemhuis:
http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/02/parallel-installable-firefox-20-rpms.html
The advantage is that you don't have to update the other packages which depend
on Firefox, but that's also its drawback (they'll still use the Firefox 1.5
rendering engine). However, if you want to try out Firefox 2 while still
keeping 1.5 as an option, this is the way to go. If you want to use 2.0
everywhere, use Rémi Collet's build.
Kevin Kofler
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