On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > 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. > > > Thanks Johnny. Getting the ESR release up to 45 for CO6 is good enough for us while we work on CO7. I didn't realize the ESR would ever move off of 38.x. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu