Edward Diener
2008-Feb-15 21:47 UTC
[CentOS] Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1
Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them using yum ?
Michael A. Peters
2008-Feb-15 22:00 UTC
[CentOS] Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1
Edward Diener wrote:> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest > versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them > using yum ? >http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php The [yjl-ff2] repo has firefox 2, thunderbird 2, and rebuilds of some apps that are gecko-libs dependent (yelp and devhelp) They are rebuilds of Fedora 8 src.rpm's (with very minor mod to firefox 2 spec file).
Johnny Hughes
2008-Feb-15 23:39 UTC
[CentOS] Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1
Edward Diener wrote:> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest > versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them > using yum ?to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2 binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep updated on a limited number of machines. I also use the OpenOffice.org 2.3.x binaries on my workstation from OOo. Keeping both of these cutting edge (just on workstations) from upstream seems to work and is not too difficult. CentOS will be adding Firefox-3.0 to CentOS-5 (and maybe CentOS-4) centosplus when it is released upstream. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080215/ac2d68f3/attachment.sig>
Michael A. Peters
2008-Feb-15 23:57 UTC
[CentOS] Gettiing the latest Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1
Johnny Hughes wrote:> Edward Diener wrote: >> Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest >> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them >> using yum ? > > to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2 > binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep > updated on a limited number of machines.but their build of firefox is linked against a different libstdc++ so some browser plugins (ie icedtea and xine-plugin) will not work with their build, unless you rebuild them against the older libstdc++ That's really too bad - because in my experience, the mozilla builds are more stable than the rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's that I'm using. Well - 2.0.0.12 hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only been running it a few days (2.0.0.10 rpm install would often crash when opening a dialog box)