Updating Firefox on Fedora Core 4
What's the best way to update Firefox? I have version 1.0.7 and I would like to upgrade to the latest version (1.5.1 is the specific version number, I believe).
I've tried using yum to update it. Here's what "yum update firefox" yields (I haven't added or deleted any repositories since I installed Fedora Core 4, so I'm using the default repositories): Code:
[root@localhost Josh1billion]# yum update firefox Code:
[root@localhost Josh1billion]# yum install firefox So, any suggestions? |
May I ?
Damn, i just lost my post because i cannot yet post urls :(
Ok, if you can read french, follow the guide of this page hxxp://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2006/02/25/114-firefox-1501-5fc4remi Otherwise, just install the 2 rpms listed : cairo-1.0.2-1.fc4.remi.i386.rpm and firefox-1.5.0.1-5.fc4.remi.i386.rpm ***** EDIT: get : http://remi.collet.free.fr/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi do : su rpm -Uvh http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc4....emi.noarch.rpm rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-remi yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox This should work... ***** To have access to more package from yum, you must set some repository such as dries or freshrpms. Google a bit for more info on that. I don't know why they don't support the 1.5.0.1 upgrade of firefox though. Hope this helps, eps |
They have not released the Fedora 1.5 package into the FC4 distro yet. They are busy working on the release of FC5 right now. Also, it takes time to test and make sure it works with all the other software. Most other distros don't have it either. You can get the Firefox 1.5 package from "development" which has been there since the first day, but it might require other stuff:
yum --enablerepo=development update firefox |
Thanks for the responses, Epsilon and Spooon.
I ended up using Spooon's solution, as it seemed to be the easiest: I'm currently updating Firefox from the Development repository. I'm using Yum Extender, instead of Yum, but that's a minor detail. It's updating as I type this. Oh shit, I think it's updating a ton of packages and not just Firefox. Oh well lmao |
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