installing Firefox 2.0 on FedoraCore6

Larry Kelly ldk2005 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 18:31:10 UTC 2007


On a clean patched FC6,  I first tried  Remi's rpm.  It failed to install
because of gecko dependency issues. I then tried Andrea's solution.  Which
installed without problems.
-Larry

On 2/8/07, Andrea Mastellone <andrea.mastellone at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > 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).
> >
>
> This was not my case:
>
> yum update -y firefox --enablerepo=development
>
> required me no auxiliary development packages, except of course firefox
> 2, in a clean fedora 6 workstation.
>
> Instead, I tryed to update to the development version of openoffice:
> tons of packages were nedeed, and I gave up.
>
> Andrea
>
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Best Regards,
-Larry
"Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative."
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