firefox version confusion

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jul 24 11:15:19 UTC 2007


> What version of Fedora are you using?  FC6 or below comes with
> firefox-1.5, whereas FC7 comes with 2.0.

Just as a side note, a few third party repos provide FF2 rpms for older 
Fedora releases. I used this one with FC6 for a while before updating to 
Fedora7, and it was flawless.

http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2005/10/02/8-telechargement-installation-et-yum

For FC6 just

  > wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/remi-release-6.rpm
  > rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm

and then

  >  yum update

should bring in FF2 for you (agmonst other things)

if you would rather not enable this repo by default all the time, then 
turn if off in the repo file and enable at the command line, e.g.

  > yun update firefox* --enablerepo=remi

Chris




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