On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 08:29 -0700, Gerald Thompson wrote: > 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. > Sorry guys I actually meant this for Dotan's thread Firefox for Fedora -- Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@xxxxxxxxx>
