On 09/04/2011 05:49 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: > People might say if I want firefox 6.0.1 I should go use fedora 16 alpha > or a mac / windows or something. Or even switch to chrome. But I don't > want GNOME 3 or a 6 month support cycle or any mac/windows crap so I just > go ahead and do things a little bit differently and I end up just fine. > If your browser doesn't work for some reason one day you could always go > back to the distro provided binaries until you figure out what is wrong. > I'm pretty sure security issues will get patched in those. Just not any > new features. > > I think that advice about not using source tarballs is very good for > beginners but once you've been using Red Hat Linux for a while you are > going to want to install some newer software to get some software you care > about to work. I have tons of stuff I've installed in /usr/local and /opt > and everything installed there works very well for me. I did not feel > like dealing with making a spec file for software only I will ever care > about. :)
Remi's repository has Firefox and Thunderbird src.rpms for Fedora. Latest is 6.0.1. I've fixed spec file and recompiled them for CentOS 6, but so far only for x86_64, and they are not signed yet. It works as expected, in fact I am writing from Thunderbird 6.0.1 installed via yum. I am planing to create packages that will install jre/java symlinks for Firefox so it works without any modifications. As soon as I make some changes so Remi's spec can be used unchanged for EL6, I am going to contact him so he can build them for his repository. The goal should always be to install everything from yum, so you can easily deploy copies of your system, and to avoid "it does not work" nightmares. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
