[CentOS] FireFox

Wed May 28 01:51:07 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:19 -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler
> <mlists at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> >
> > Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos?  If so, which repo?
> >
> 
> You can just pull down the latest version from mozilla.org - they're
> pretty good about compatibility.  I'd try it out in a different
> install directory, though, just to be sure, but you can always
> uninstall it and re-load the release version if it doesn't work right
> for you.

I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed the 3.0rc1
tarball in the $HOME of a user and run it from there.

]$ ls -l bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hardtolove hardtolove 32 May 21 13:07 bin/firefox
-> /home/hardtolove/firefox/firefox

Then, modify PATH assignment in ~/.bash_profile to something like this

$ echo $PATH
/home/hardtolove/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

This lets all other users get the box-stock version while I test the new
one. So far it's looking pretty good.

> 
> mhr
> <snip sig stuff>

HTH
-- 
Bill