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From: mariowilson on 2 Feb 2006 03:03
Anyone try this?

http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/13/mozilla-firefox-15-for-mandriva-2006/
(rpm for mandriva, firefox 1.5)

I want to avoid Java, adobe, flash, or any other such issues if I can.
Should I wait for something out of Mandriva Cooker?

Cheers,

MW

From: John Kloosterman on 2 Feb 2006 03:45
mariowilson(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Anyone try this?
>
> http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/13/mozilla-firefox-15-for-mandriva-2006/
> (rpm for mandriva, firefox 1.5)
>
> I want to avoid Java, adobe, flash, or any other such issues if I can.
> Should I wait for something out of Mandriva Cooker?
>
> Cheers,
>
> MW
>

I only tried firefox 1.5 from the seerofsouls repository. I did not find
any issues other than a re-install of flash (as you would espect because
this version gets a new entry at /usr/lib).

So - if you want to play on safe try adding the repository at:
http://seerofsouls.com/rpm2006.html .

I will try out the rpm's at the location you have given and report here
if there are any issues (that is - if no-one has tried it out yet).
From: phlux0r on 2 Feb 2006 14:20
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:45:40 +0100, John Kloosterman wrote:

> mariowilson(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> Anyone try this?
>>
>> http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/13/mozilla-firefox-15-for-mandriva-2006/
>> (rpm for mandriva, firefox 1.5)
>>
>> I want to avoid Java, adobe, flash, or any other such issues if I can.
>> Should I wait for something out of Mandriva Cooker?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> MW
>>
>
> I only tried firefox 1.5 from the seerofsouls repository. I did not find
> any issues other than a re-install of flash (as you would espect because
> this version gets a new entry at /usr/lib).
>
> So - if you want to play on safe try adding the repository at:
> http://seerofsouls.com/rpm2006.html .
>
> I will try out the rpm's at the location you have given and report here
> if there are any issues (that is - if no-one has tried it out yet).

I just upgraded firefox to 1.5 from cooker and had absolutely no trouble.
I also had to reinstall flash but that's, as you said, expected. So all I
did is activate the Mandriva 2006 Cooker repositories and used urpmi to
select only the firefox 1.5 package. Afterwards, I reset my repositories
to the normal main and contrib.
From: RaMRod on 2 Feb 2006 23:53
mariowilson(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Anyone try this?
>
> http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/13/mozilla-firefox-15-for-mandriva-2006/
> (rpm for mandriva, firefox 1.5)
>
> I want to avoid Java, adobe, flash, or any other such issues if I can.
> Should I wait for something out of Mandriva Cooker?
>
> Cheers,
>
> MW
>

For both Firefox and Thunderbird there's no need to use rpm; just
download the *.tar.gz, unpack to e.g. ~/programs and run from there,
adding the appropriate shortcuts in your preferred location(panel,
K-menu, etc.). Mandriva RPMs always provide an outdated version. I tried
Firefox 1.5 rpm from SoS and I got a segmentation fault when attempting
to launch it. I'm running the edition downloaded from mozilla page
without any hiccups though.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
From: kermit on 3 Feb 2006 17:00
phlux0r wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:45:40 +0100, John Kloosterman wrote:
>> I only tried firefox 1.5 from the seerofsouls repository. I did not find
>> any issues other than a re-install of flash (as you would espect because
>> this version gets a new entry at /usr/lib).
[...]
> I just upgraded firefox to 1.5 from cooker and had absolutely no trouble.
> I also had to reinstall flash but that's, as you said, expected.

Put it under /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it will be found by future
upgrades.

=arvi=

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