Firefox 3.0.15 breaks my email
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From: geep on 26 Nov 2009 05:00 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:13:27 +0300, Mikhail Zotov wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:37:34 +0000 (UTC) geep <geep_at(a)boursomail.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:20 +0000, barnabyh wrote: >> >> > geep wrote: >> > >> > >> >> Any idea why Firefox 3.5 isn't already supported on 12.2? >> >> >> >> I'm willing to try Firefox 3.5 on Slackware 12.2 - has anybody got a >> >> good 12.2 SlackBuild script for it? >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter >> > >> > Hi geep, >> > >> > have you tried FF 3.5 for 13 on Slackware 12.2? >> > >> > Barnaby >> >> Hi, Nope. Can't! 13 is packaged txz, 12.2 uses tgz. It's easy enough to >> modify the 13 Slackbuild to package as tgz, but before I start >> experimenting I'd like to know if anybody else has done it. As it's so >> simple to package as a tgz, I am wondering why Pat + Slackware crew >> didn't already do it for us. Nasty incompatabilty lurking somwhere? > > What's the problem? Take the SlackBuild & friends from > source/xap/mozilla-firefox from Slack-13.0 or -current, change the last > symbols in the SlackBuild script from "txz" to "tgz", then run the > script. In a few minutes you will have a package in the desired format. > > As for FF-3.0.14, you can always download it from ftp.mozilla.org and > create a Slackware package using the build script for FF-3.0.15 with > just a couple of trivial changes. > > HTH, > Mikhail Thanks for your input guys. The mozilla ftp resource is particularly helpful - hadn't bumped into it whilst Googling. Cheers, Peter
From: tapp on 13 Dec 2009 08:11
[geep <geep_at(a)boursomail.com>] Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:37:34 +0000 > Hi, Nope. Can't! 13 is packaged txz, 12.2 uses tgz. It's easy enough to > modify the 13 Slackbuild to package as tgz, [...] Even easier, maybe a little brute, but works perfectly: Upgrade the related tools from 13.0, which would be: upgradepkg slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz upgradepkg slackware/a/tar-*.tgz installpkg slackware/a/xz-*.tgz upgradepkg slackware/a/findutils-*.txz (in this order, as described in UPGRADE.TXT on 13.0) Used those on 12.1 since 13.0 came out, no problems so far. Regards, Arnd |