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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20160427/4f43a6e3/attachment-0005.sig>