On 04/27/2016 09:23 AM, James Pearson wrote:
Phil Wyett wrote:
On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 08:27 -0400, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
The latest version of firefox, 46.0 requires GTK3 and so it fails on CentOS 6.7.
I know there is the ESR release supplied by upstream, but that is based on version 38. We have regularly installed the Mozilla "Linux" version of Firefox in a central location for our users, and this has worked just fine until 46.0. (I note from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ that even that ESR release is due to stop being supported soon).
I filed a bugzilla report at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267815. If this matters to you, please consider tagging onto that bug.
Yes, yes we have to upgrade to CentOS 7. But in our shop, the amount of work required to get this done is huge, and won't happen soon.
The whole idea of using RHEL/CentOS is to have a stable, supported version for a long period of time. How can we do this if even a web browser won't work?
Hi,
The latest firefox ESR for RHEL/CentOS 5, 6 and 7 is 45.1. That version should appear in CentOS updates when Mr Hughes has worked his magic.
With 46 not being an ESR and not released for RHEL/CentOS, it is not really something most here would be too worried about.
Mozilla still (currently) support GTK2 as a build option - so if want to run Firefox 46 (and above) on CentOS 6, then you will need to build it from source
You might be able to start with the 45.1 SRPM and hack the spec file to build 46.0 ...
Or just use the ESR version that Red Hat releases :)
ESR is updated at intervals, and it went from 38 to 45, will go up again in 6 or 7 releases again.
Things move on (like firefox) while enterprise distros purposely have a slower cadence. Fedora has GTK3 and all the other bells and whistles. If that is the type of cadence you want, Fedora is an excellent distro.
I should have the CentOS-6 (and CentOS-5) version of Firefox 45 out in a couple of minutes .. currently building metadata and testing them on https://ci.centos.org/
CentOS-7 version of Firefox 45 was released yesterday.