On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:41:05 -0400, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:26:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > >> > It's so easy to install prebuilt Firefox packages from http://fedora.us > >> > >> The two (0.8 and 0.9) at > >> > >> http://www.fedora.us/pkglists/fedora-1-stable.html > >> > >> both say .src.rpm -- which iiuc puts them beyond my ability to cope. > > > > Nah, those package lists are broken, and *I* can't do anything about it. > > > > http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO > > > > Or browse the master site manually here: > > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/ > > OK -- after somebody pointed out that I needed rm -rf (which I'd've > sworn I'd tried before rmdir) and it worked, I got both > > firefox-0.9.1-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm > > and > > firefox-0.9.3-0.fdr.4.i386.rpm > > from there as well as > > firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz > > and > > firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz from mozilla.org. > > I'd a lot rather use rpms than tarballs -- if I can. Now I'm wondering > about that "*.fdr.3.*" resp. "*.fdr.4.*" in those rpms. Are those release > numbers, or what? Is either of them going to work with FC1?? Or do I have > to go untar one of the tarballs and hope for the best? You've found the rpms in the fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable directory, which means they are made for Fedora Core 1. Even better, the same rpms also work on Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3 Test 1. And yes, the number after .fdr is a package release number.
