Installing mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-i686-1.tgz on an i586

onedingo · 02-15-2006, 11:48 AM

Are there any issues installing this on a Pentium 233 (Socket 7) machine running 10.2 (2.4.31)?

What would be the point to making it only available for i686 or better?

Thanks.

kodon · 02-15-2006, 01:26 PM

you could make your own package
compiling from source for your arch

onedingo · 02-15-2006, 01:37 PM

Yup.
But *.tgz are so much easier...

Compiling on p233 just sucks for some things, Firefox is probably not so bad as I'll soon find out.

Though I still would like to know why the need for i686. This is just a web browser, not an h.264 compressor.

kodon · 02-15-2006, 02:24 PM

i don't suppose there is a *need*
that is just the arch that
mozilla releases its builds under...

(firefox is probably the longest
build time i've seen on this box)