Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andrea Mastellone <andrea.mastellone <at> fastwebnet.it> writes: >> yum update -y firefox --enablerepo=development > > Ugh, updating from development (Rawhide) isn't that great an idea (you'll > have to fetch several packages which depend on Firefox from development > too, and this could potentially draw in plenty of unstable packages). > > Rémi Collet has backported Firefox 2 from Rawhide to FC6 and rebuilt the > FC6 packages which depend on Firefox for it (the FC6 versions, not the > Rawhide ones). > http://remi.collet.free.fr/ > Here's the latest version: > http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2007/02/01/286-firefox-2001-3fc6 > > There's also a parallel-installable firefox2 by Gawain Lynch and Thorsten > Leemhuis: > http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/02/parallel-installable-firefox-20-rpms.html > The advantage is that you don't have to update the other packages which > depend on Firefox, but that's also its drawback (they'll still use the > Firefox 1.5 rendering engine). However, if you want to try out Firefox 2 > while still keeping 1.5 as an option, this is the way to go. If you want > to use 2.0 everywhere, use Rémi Collet's build. > > Kevin Kofler > sudo smart install firefox-2.0.0.1-3.fc6.remi.x86_64.rpm ... Upgrading packages (1): firefox-2.0.0.1-3.fc6.remi@x86_64 Installing packages (1): firefox-1.5.0.9-2.fc6@i386 What? Why install i386 stuff????
