Hi,

Just installed FC6 and so far so good (compared to FC2 and FC4 which I had tried previously but ended up going back to Debian).
How come the repos that came standard only have Firefox 1.5 and not the latest version?
Can anyone recommend any good (and fast) repos? (I cannot even find Rox or Rox-Filer in the standard Repos).

Thank you in advance.

Firefox 2.0 is in the development repository. If you want to experiment with unstable software, just:

yum --enablerepo=development update firefox

Don't be surprised that there are a load of requisites that have to be installed as well.

Fedora is fairly up to date in their own repos (core, extras). The reason that you find only firefox 1.5 is that the fedora team is holding out for firefox 3. See here for further information http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox2

For mirrors, I recommend the yum-fastestmirror plugin. It will find the fastest 'repo'. I did a quick search and have not come accross anyone packaging rox for fedora core, but the rox page had this to say about installing http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/FedoraCore
Looks outdated, but should work on fc6, and looks painless...

And if you really want Firefox 2.0.0.1, just install it from the tar file available from the Mozilla Firefox site. It work fine on FC 6. In fact, that's what I'm using for this note.

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Looking at the Wiki referenced by peterspin27, above, the whole discussion -- and the problems they have -- concern having version 1.5 and 2.0 co-exist on the same system. This is not, in fact, much of a problem since 2.0 should be installed in /usr/local/lib/firefox whilst 1.5 goes into /usr/lib/firefox. Creating a symlink from /bin to each version (with, of course, different names) makes them work easily together.

The other problem they mention -- "incompatible" extensions -- I addressed by using the MR Tech extension to disable compatibility checking. For the extensions I use, the only "incompatibility" I found was the list of compatible versions, not the extension itself. Of course, you could have some extension that was actually incompatible. But none of the ones I use have proved to be incompatible with 2.0.
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Even better, get it from the "remi" repository, here:

http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.....remi.i386.rpm

(or here, for x86_64:

http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6....emi.x86_64.rpm


I installed the remi repository rpm, but couldn't get yum to recognise it unfortunately. If the same happens to you, an "rpm -Uvh firefoxpackage-xyz.rpm" should suffice.

If it gives you any dependency errors, copy what ever it comes up with , e.g. libxyz.so , go to "advanced search" on http://rpm.pbone.net, search for it under fedora 6, find out what the package it needs is, then *don't* download any of the packages from the list it brings up, but instead go to the remi repository above and manually download and install the rpm.

Alternatively, install with "rpm -Uvh --force", if you're lazy!