On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:18 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote: > Hey lads, > > I've been trying for around a week now to run any browser to connect > to the internet, but to no avail... Here is the full story: > > I have FC4 which I am keeping up to date daily using yum... I run > KDE3.5, which is also up2date... I also got a DSL connection through > my Network, which requires no proxy settings... > > When I run K's Konqueror, I log on and browse the net well, but the > problem comes when trying to use FF... I've installed FF1.5, but it > doesn't connect to the internet, it keeps on searching for the web > page forever, and then gives me the "Page Timed-out" error... I tried > Gnome's Epiphany, and it still did the same... > > Any suggestions? > > -- > A. Helmy > Hi Ali Try this: You can build your own RPM for Firefox and Thunderbird and it will overwrite the older version. Also I find it useful to use yum localinstall "path to the rpm" The benefit of using yum localinstall is if there is a missing dependency then it will automatically download it. Here is the info on building Firefox and Thunderbird RPM's Do this first: http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/ Another method to create rpmbuild directory in your home directory is using fedora-rpmdevtools Thanks to Mr. Warren Togami's suggestion. 1) Install fedora-rpmdevtools binary RPM from Fedora Extras for your Fedora release. $ sudo yum install fedora-rpmdevtools 2) As a non-root user, run fedora-buildrpmtree to create rpmbuild directory. $ fedora-buildrpmtree Do these next: http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/ http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/ It has worked perfectly for me following the steps on those web sites. -- Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@xxxxxxxxx>
