FireFox & Mozilla based Web Browsers
Gerald Thompson
geraldlt at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 15:32:36 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 08:29 -0700, Gerald Thompson wrote:
> Hi Ali
>
> Try this:
>
> You can build your own RPM for Firefox and Thunderbird and it will
> overwrite the older version. Also I find it useful to use
>
> yum localinstall "path to the rpm"
>
> The benefit of using yum localinstall is if there is a missing
> dependency then it will automatically download it.
>
> Here is the info on building Firefox and Thunderbird RPM's
>
> Do this first:
> http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/
>
> Another method to create rpmbuild directory in your home directory is
> using fedora-rpmdevtools
> Thanks to Mr. Warren Togami's suggestion.
>
> 1) Install fedora-rpmdevtools binary RPM from Fedora Extras for your
> Fedora release.
> $ sudo yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
>
> 2) As a non-root user, run fedora-buildrpmtree to create rpmbuild
> directory.
> $ fedora-buildrpmtree
>
>
> Do these next:
>
> http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/
>
> http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/
>
>
> It has worked perfectly for me following the steps on those web sites.
>
Sorry guys I actually meant this for Dotan's thread Firefox for Fedora
--
Gerald Thompson <geraldlt at gmail.com>
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