[K12OSN] Local Apps and Firefox 6

[Jomegat]

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to run Firefox as a local application and I'm looking for 
some advice.  First I tried following the instructions at 
https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/LocalAppsSupport

but when I got to the yum part, there was no joy:

[root at termserv i386]# setarch i386 chroot .
bash-4.1# yum install firefox
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: 
epel. Please verify its path and try again

I thought - maybe I need to run ltsp-server-tweaks, since I do not 
recall having run that when I last rebooted (but everything seemed to 
work then, so... I dunno?)

Here's what happens when I try running that:
[root at termserv ~]# ltsp-server-tweaks
Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed to contact 
configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable 
TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system 
crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 
  1: Not running within active session)

Hmmm.  Not sure what all that means.

I tried all this while remotely logged in, as Tropical Storm Irene might 
make it a bit dodgy to get to the school (or get home afterwards).  I 
don't think that's significant, but just in case it is, I'm disclosing 
it here.

My next thought was that maybe I should try FF 6 instead of 3.6 (which 
is what yum will install).  Is there a reason I should avoid that?

Thanks in advance!

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Jim Thomas            jomegat at jomegat.com
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