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From: barnabyh on 24 Nov 2009 15:27 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 -- 5 years using Linux - and loving it.
From: geep on 24 Nov 2009 15:37 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? Xubuntu too. I just tried it, and it upgraded to 3.0.15 and not 3.5.5. Cheers, Peter
From: barnabyh on 24 Nov 2009 18:14 geep 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? > > Xubuntu too. I just tried it, and it upgraded to 3.0.15 and not 3.5.5. > > Cheers, > Peter Ugh, yeah, didn't think of the change in format. Surely there must be a way to convert, a la rpm2tgz. You could of course always run the package extracted straight from mozilla. Then you can have the latest version the day it comes out. In rpm based distros you loose some system integration this way but not sure this would apply for Slack. Happy tinkering- -- 5 years of Linux only - and loving it.
From: Martijn Dekker on 24 Nov 2009 20:23 In article <hehg6e$2ea1$1(a)energise.enta.net>, geep <geep_at(a)boursomail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:20 +0000, barnabyh wrote: > > > have you tried FF 3.5 for 13 on Slackware 12.2? > > 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. I've done it. Works like a charm. - M.
From: Mikhail Zotov on 25 Nov 2009 05:13
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 |