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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