Updating Firefox on Fedora Core 4

Josh1billion · 03-09-2006, 10:08 PM

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
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Could not find update match for firefox
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

I've also tried "yum install firefox" .. this didn't work either, as you can see:

Code:

[root@localhost Josh1billion]# yum install firefox
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

Having both of these options failed, I tried to download the latest version from www.getfirefox.com , but their available binaries are junk (installation instructions are basically "extract the archive to the folder where you'd like Firefox to be installed" -- so, apparently, they're giving you the actual files rather than a formal package installer). I tried installing this way and nothing good came of it, let me assure you.

So, any suggestions?

Epsilum · 03-09-2006, 11:30 PM

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

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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...
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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

spooon · 03-09-2006, 11:32 PM

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

Josh1billion · 03-10-2006, 12:08 PM

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