Michael Chang wrote:
>
> What you are saying to me is already apparent to me. I didn't mean to come off
> defensive in my last reply, and I hope what I am saying is also apparent.
That's cool, no offence taken or anything.
> I used the rpm's because I don't want to wait
> for the 37.5M file to download and the rpm's are readily accessable.
Ahh, I think I know where the miscommunication is occuring... If you
have a look in the nightlies directory
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/>, you'll see that
the only files ~30M in size are mozilla-source.tar.[gz|bz2] (and the DEC
UNIX build, for some reason). These two -source tarballs are the *only*
files that contain the source. The rest are pre-built, i.e. binary,
nightly Moz builds.
So, if you download the mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz file from the
above directory, you're getting a binary build which you can just unpack
and run on any i386 architecture Linux box. No need to compile anything.
Note that ATM this file is 9.9M big, which is about the same size as the
RPMs when combined.
There's actually a few different flavours of nightly builds in that
directory for i386 Linux, here's a summary:
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz - binary taball, unpack it and you can
run Moz right away. <10Mb.
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz - tarball with installer and
complete set of .xpi's (installation data files). Unpack, run the
installer and you're set. ~10Mb.
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz - the 'Net installer. Unpack
and run the installer, it will download the .xpi files from the 'Net as
needed. If you're not going to be installing a component like Mail or
Chatzilla, this could save you a few megabytes of downloads. ~90Kb.
IIRC, the two installers also come with Talkback, for reporting crash
data back to mozilla.org. I hightly reccomend you use these has it makes
it easy for developers to identify where Mozilla is crashing.
Mike.
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