The quick and easy way to update to firefox 1.5

agentsmith23 · #1 19th January 2006, 02:44 PM

I know alot of people using FC4 have been asking how to do this. So here it is.

It is really simple use this command :

yum --enablerepo=development update firefox

I just did it and it worked perfectly, post your results so we know if it works for everyone.

overule · #2 19th January 2006, 02:53 PM

Did you configure yum using stanley's instructions?

***bob*** · #3 19th January 2006, 02:56 PM

EEP! Well, I gave it a try and THANKFULLY ended with this:

Error: Missing Dependency: libdps.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package ImageMagick
Error: Missing Dependency: libdps.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package xorg-x11
Error: Missing Dependency: libdpstk.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package ImageMagick

It was set to update scores of different programs and libs, including many core programs, if it hadn't hit the snag. Don't think I want to update all of those from 'development' just to get Firefox 1.5, when it's so easy to download and run straight from the home directory without updates.

agentsmith23 · #4 19th January 2006, 02:59 PM

umm...no who is stanley?
i found the command while searching google. i was trying to help someone else to upgrade the way i did the last time which was by finding a repos that had it available but i couldn't find it. but i did run across this command from another forum(oops i thought it was another forum i just looked at the google search i did and it is from this forum) and it worked perfectly without changing any other settings.

agentsmith23 · #5 19th January 2006, 03:00 PM

bob are you using the 64bit linux?

***bob*** · #6 19th January 2006, 03:37 PM

Agentsmith, yes I am. What I SHOULD have done, first of all is to run:

yum --enablerepo=development deplist firefox

which shows that dependencies include:
glibc
gtk2
xorg-x11
gnome-vfs.2
zlib
perl
krb5
..and dozens of others. In fact, the actual list was too long to begin to post here.

My point is that you can do this, but it affects so much, do you really want to? Before making the decision, people should run the above script and see what it entails.

Just4Nick · #7 20th January 2006, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by justol'bob

EEP! Well, I gave it a try and THANKFULLY ended with this:

Error: Missing Dependency: libdps.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package ImageMagick
Error: Missing Dependency: libdps.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package xorg-x11
Error: Missing Dependency: libdpstk.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package ImageMagick

It was set to update scores of different programs and libs, including many core programs, if it hadn't hit the snag. Don't think I want to update all of those from 'development' just to get Firefox 1.5, when it's so easy to download and run straight from the home directory without updates.

I try to update a month ago, but same here. For the present I still use 1.0.7