On Monday 11 August 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Joe Apuzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok last meeting I did a quick lightning talk on my success in printing > > Digital photos at the local CVS. > > [snip about 40 lines of HOW-TO] > > # emerge mozilla-firefox-bin > > :-D If you find yourself doing these kinds of hacks or compiling from > source code in package based distributions, perhaps it's time to > rethink your distro ( http://www.gentoo.org ).
While it's not quite as simple (more than one command required), you can also build a .DEB package from source: 1. apt-get source <package_name> 2. apt-get build-dep <package_name> 3. fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage 4. dpkg -i <new_pacakge> 1) gets the source code from the distro, which inclues the build rules, 2) installs the development dependencies, 3) builds the package (as a normal user), 4) installs it (as root). Most of the time it's not necessary to rebuild packages from source which is perhaps why the above isn't more common knowledge. > By the way, is anyone else becoming more and more disenfranchised with > Firefox? The performance on Linux is really sucking out big time. I'm also getting the impresson that the Mozilla Foundation focuses on Windows. :-/ Frankly I'd like an alternative, but I like using several security plug-ins that Firefox has available, such as NoScript, TrackMeNot, and AdblockPlus, among others. > For example, Google 'javascript speed test' and pit every installed > browser you have. Firefox is just about dead last on my machine -- > HELL, it even loses by about 20% (!!) to FF3 in WinXP in KVM on the > same machine. That's pretty pathetic. :-/ I'm mildly unhappy with FF3; about 1/3rd of the pages on ytmnd.com seem to be able to get FF3 to crash hard, of which never happened with FF2. But at least FF3 crashes faster. :-/ -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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