Re: Getting latest Firefox and Sun Java packages

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How do,

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 21:20 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Edward Diener wrote:
> 
> > I would like to install Firefox 2.0 and Sun Java JDK 5.0 ( now that Sun has 
> > open-sourced ) on FC6. Does anybody know of any repositories which carry 
> > these packages for FC6 ?
> 
> Fx 2.0 is in the development repo or there are some other builds around.

There's always the option of grabbing the Fx 2.0 tar.gz file from
mozilla & building your own RPM. I built RPMs of Firefox 2.0 &
Thunderbird 2.0 beta for FC3. Both packages are screaming away on 12 FC3
workstations :-) Gotta tell ya, Thunderbird 2.0 is da bomb!!

> Sun's Java isn't open yet AFAIK.  You can find instructions for getting it 
> and building a nosource RPM at jpackage.org.  The latest stable release is 
> 1.5.0.9
> 
> HTH.
> -- 
>  		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.


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