On Thursday 22 March 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 22 March 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >>> On 3/22/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Greetings; >>>> >>>> There is a readme.txt that point one to a web page in the download >>>> of ff-2.0.0.3-tar.gz from the ff main site. >>>> >>>> Unforch, I cannot find an install script in the archive, nor any >>>> install/update instructions on the web page. >>>> >>>> So how does one go about installing it on an FC6 box? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cheers, Gene >>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >>>> * wichert_ imagines master without a MTA >>>> <james> wichert: ehm? that might hinder peformance of the BTS :p >>> >>> Would have been nice if you had check Fedora's website first. Or >>> googled "firefox+2+fedora" but anyways, here you go: >>> >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox2 >> >> Which does not of course point to an installable rpm, the link >> provided is a 404. I also have an alpha of ff-3, but it also has no >> installer. >> >> So it appears that to install it on an FC6 system, we are going to >> have to write our own installer. Or wait till FC7, at which time you >> might deign to include it. Methinks you are throwing away a valuable >> testing resource, your users. > >Well, not everything needs an installer or rpm. > >I downloaded the FF2.0.0.3 tar file, un-tar'ed it and created an icon on > my desktop to run it. So did I, but it found none of the plugins or bookmarks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It's more than magnificent -- it's mediocre. -- Sam Goldwyn
