Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:44:23 -0500 From: Jason Trickett <jstrickett@cogeco.ca> To: James Earl <james@icionline.ca>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox 1.0? Message-ID: <41ED12B7.3010305@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <1106052338.629.28.camel@localhost> References: <41ECF965.8090807@cogeco.ca> <1106052338.629.28.camel@localhost>
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James Earl said the following on 1/18/2005 7:45 AM: >On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 06:56 -0500, Jason Trickett wrote: > > >>Hi. I wanna run Firefox 1.0 but the version in the 5.3-RELEASE stream is >>0.9.3. I have linux-compatibility turned on, so can I just use the linux >>firefox binary installer? Do I need to do anything extra (except remove >>0.9.3 first)? >> >> > >You should compile a native version of Firefox yourself using the >www/firefox port. > ># pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui ># /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -h >cvsup4.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile ># cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make install > >James > > > K, I'm trying the port method you suggested to build firefox. I've hit a snag, though. It had to download & build atk 1.8.0, but gave an error when it found an earlier version (atk-1.6.1, package). I tried to delete and was told several packages depended on it and it couldn't be deinstalled. Any suggestions?
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