Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them using yum ?
Edward Diener wrote:
Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them using yum ?
http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php
The [yjl-ff2] repo has firefox 2, thunderbird 2, and rebuilds of some apps that are gecko-libs dependent (yelp and devhelp)
They are rebuilds of Fedora 8 src.rpm's (with very minor mod to firefox 2 spec file).
Edward Diener wrote:
Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them using yum ?
to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2 binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep updated on a limited number of machines.
I also use the OpenOffice.org 2.3.x binaries on my workstation from OOo.
Keeping both of these cutting edge (just on workstations) from upstream seems to work and is not too difficult.
CentOS will be adding Firefox-3.0 to CentOS-5 (and maybe CentOS-4) centosplus when it is released upstream.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Edward Diener wrote:
Is there any 3rd party repository for which I can get the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for CentOS 5.1 and install them using yum ?
to be honest, I am currently using the firefox2 and thunderbird2 binaries from mozilla.com ... they are fairly easy to install and keep updated on a limited number of machines.
but their build of firefox is linked against a different libstdc++ so some browser plugins (ie icedtea and xine-plugin) will not work with their build, unless you rebuild them against the older libstdc++
That's really too bad - because in my experience, the mozilla builds are more stable than the rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's that I'm using. Well - 2.0.0.12 hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only been running it a few days (2.0.0.10 rpm install would often crash when opening a dialog box)
Michael A. Peters a écrit :
That's really too bad - because in my experience, the mozilla builds are more stable than the rebuilds of F8 src.rpm's that I'm using. Well - 2.0.0.12 hasn't crashed on me yet, but I've only been running it a few days (2.0.0.10 rpm install would often crash when opening a dialog box)
As an aside: I've been really annoyed by browser instability problems, since my CentOS desktops are installed in public libraries which also somewhat serve as publicly accessible internet cafés. Tried any version of Firefox (1.5.x, 2.0.x, 3.0beta), to no avail.
I solved the problem by using the Seamonkey browser, complete with Flash, MPlayer and Java plugins: same rendering engine, lighter on resources, much more stable. I started from an FC8 specfile, tweaked some defaults, then built it with the --disable-mailnews and the --disable-composer options, so I got only the browser instead of the whole Internet suite. As for the desktop environment (no troll intended, please), I simply switched from GNOME to XFCE, which has basically the same functionalities, without bloat nor weird dependencies. One very nice possibility is the XFCE Kiosk mode, which simply prevents users from defacing the default configuration.
my two centimes d'euro :oD
Niki
PS: if you want to try it out --> http://kikinovak.free.fr/centos/5/kikinovak/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-1.1.7-3.i386... Caution: the repo is currently being built, and subject to (daily) change.
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