On 12/19/05, Patrick <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 16:11 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > [snip] > > I have downloaded the version of firefox available from www.nrpms.net, > > and am attempting to install it. An initial installation attempt > > produces errors: > [snip] > > > > Any ideas what's going on? > > It seems that who made the rpm did not disable cairo and pango which are > not present on FC4. I just got the firefox-1.5 srpm from rawhide, > removed cairo and pango in the config file, in the specfile I removed > the cairo and pango (Build)Requires and changed the nspr and nss stuff > into mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss with the proper versions. Rebuild, > install and enjoy. I tried rebuilding on x86_64 but that failed so I Huh. Rebuilding on x86_64 worked for me. I believe I followed the same procedure as you describe. Sounds about the same, at least, but I probably would not notice any slight differences as it was a while ago. > built it on an x86 box (32 bit) and installed it on my x86_64. The > upside is that you can use java, flash etc. which don't work on 64 bit > versions of firefox. Yes, that is the plus side to a 32-bit build, which should be possible to do on the x86_64 system as well. I suspect there is not much performance penalty for web browsing : ). Jonathan
