Re: Firefox 46.0 fails on CentOS 6.7 due to GTK3 requirement

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Phil Wyett wrote:
On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 08:27 -0400, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
The latest version of firefox, 46.0 requires GTK3 and so it fails on CentOS
6.7.

I know there is the ESR release supplied by upstream, but that is based on
version 38. We have regularly installed the Mozilla "Linux" version of
Firefox in a central location for our users, and this has worked just fine
until 46.0. (I note from
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ that even that ESR
release is due to stop being supported soon).

I filed a bugzilla report at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267815. If this matters to
you, please consider tagging onto that bug.

Yes, yes we have to upgrade to CentOS 7. But in our shop, the amount of
work required to get this done is huge, and won't happen soon.

The whole idea of using RHEL/CentOS is to have a stable, supported version
for a long period of time. How can we do this if even a web browser won't
work?


Hi,

The latest firefox ESR for RHEL/CentOS 5, 6 and 7 is 45.1. That version
should appear in CentOS updates when Mr Hughes has worked his magic.

With 46 not being an ESR and not released for RHEL/CentOS, it is not
really something most here would be too worried about.

Mozilla still (currently) support GTK2 as a build option - so if want to run Firefox 46 (and above) on CentOS 6, then you will need to build it from source

You might be able to start with the 45.1 SRPM and hack the spec file to build 46.0 ...

James

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