[SOLVED] Current - Apr 24 updates

burdi01 · 04-25-2017, 05:01 AM

The Mon Apr 24 18:06:06 UTC 2017 updates for Current state "xap/mozilla-firefox-52.1.0esr-x86_64-1.txz".
For as far as I am aware Pat goes to ESR's for Current when a new stable release is upcoming. Is this the case now?

audriusk · 04-25-2017, 05:04 AM

No: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5699437

burdi01 · 04-25-2017, 08:08 AM

Thank you for the explanation.
Actually I am running Firefox 53.0 as downloaded from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#nl on Current64 without problems. The only thing one has to do is symlink /usr/lib/mozilla -> ../lib64/mozilla.

audriusk · 04-25-2017, 09:34 AM

If you like using Firefox binaries provided by Mozilla, you may want to try latest-firefox.sh script written by one of LQ members, Ruarí Ødegaard. Haven't tried it myself, but I remember several LQ members using it without any problems. Its main advantage is that it repackages Mozilla provided binary into a proper Slackware package, which allows you to easily upgrade it.

burdi01 · 04-25-2017, 10:33 AM

I created a socalled "infra" package ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0g...ew?usp=sharing ) to set up the "infrastructure".
The only thing I have to do when installing a new Firefox version is replace the /usr/lib64/firefox directory with the untar of the download from mozilla.