Re: Dependencies of Firefox

[Rex Dieter]

Havard Rast Blok wrote:
> After much googling, grumbling and yumming, I finally got it working
> with these updates (I'm not sure if the openssl was necessary):
>
> yum list firefox nss openssl mod_ssl
>
> firefox.i386  1.5.0.7-1.fc5
> mod_ssl.i386  1:2.2.2-1.2
> nss.i386      3.11.3-0.5.fc5
> openssl.i686  0.9.8a-5.3
>
> My question is now, why are these packages not updated by yum as
> dependencies of firefox?

There *is* a dependancy on nss, but you probably just had an older
(non-functioning) version.  Updating it to the latest (probably) is what
fixed it.

-- Rex