[CentOS] firefox 18

[lhecking at users.sourceforge.net]

> You can install a separate python 2.6 stack - e.g: 
> <http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/epel-i386/python26-2.6.8-2.el5.i386.rpm.html>
> 
> This won't interfere with the default CentOS 5 python 2.4 install
> 
> I think the firefox build process looks for a 'python2.6' binary - if 
> not, then just add a line to your mozconfig like:
> 
> PYTHON=python2.6
> 
> I didn't do this, as I already had access to a locally rebuilt 2.6 
> install - but I guess the above should work, although I have no idea how 
> much of the 2.6 stack will be required ...
 
 Thanks, James! The epel version of python26 works fine, and the only other
 package I needed was yasm from rpmforge. Build took <13m on a reasonable
 machine :)