Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Thu Sep 11 19:29:56 UTC 2008



John Thompson wrote:
> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>
> > Is that being planned at all? Or is F8 only supported in terms of
> > security patches & such?
>
> I was able to compile FF-3.0.1 for 64-bit Fedora8 using the Fedora9
> src.rpm and a little tweaking. If you want to try them:
>
> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.src.rpm
>
>
Why use the rpm's at all?  Why not just get it from Mozilla?  If you 
want the latest you need to do that anyway.

Kevin




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