installing Firefox 2.0 on FedoraCore6

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 13:02:11 UTC 2007


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).
> 
> 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
> 

sudo smart install firefox-2.0.0.1-3.fc6.remi.x86_64.rpm
...
Upgrading packages (1):
  firefox-2.0.0.1-3.fc6.remi at x86_64

Installing packages (1):
  firefox-1.5.0.9-2.fc6 at i386


What?  Why install i386 stuff????





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