Yum and Firefox 2

max2004 · 11-01-2006, 03:24 PM

Hi,

Firefox 2 is out for quiet some time now... but there is still no update available, when I run "yum update firefox". Does anyone know what takes so long to make such a popular update available in the repos?

Other than that: I have FC6 on a 64 bit processor and there is e.g. no amarok or mozilla available in the yum repos (core, extras, livna, dries, ...).

Greetings,
Max

dubya · 11-01-2006, 03:50 PM

Firefox and thunderbird updates always take a while. I remember some discussion on one of the Fedora lists some time ago about why it took so long. I can't remember exactly why, but I think reasons were that they have to repackage it and...tinker, for lack of a better word, with it before they push it out. Also, this may be wrong, but I think one point was that they only had one guy working on it.

So, unless you want to install the tar ball from mozilla, you'll have to sit tight. Sorry!