On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:04:47PM +0100, Marc Gasser wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know, where to get firefox 8 RPMS for SL5 and SL6 from? > > regards, > > Marc
http://pkgs.org/ is a handy website when you want to know whether a particular piece of software has been packaged up for your Linux distribution. Search for Firefox and you'll find two options for SL6, Les RPM de Remi and PUIAS Unsupported. Click on either link and scroll down for installation instructions. Sadly pkgs.org has nothing newer than firefox 3.6.24 for SL5. Some minor tweaks may be required e.g. after installing the remi-release rpm I had to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo. The reference to $releasever needs to be changed to "6", and if you have yum-plugin-priorities installed you may need to add a "priority" line. Firefox 8 from Les RPM de Remi works for me with just the minor issue that I couldn't find a way to change the system-wide default homepage. Eva.
