Fiefox 1.04 rpm available!

jim · #1 11th May 2005, 06:30 PM

Hi all I took it upon myself to build the new firefox1.04 rpm as Thomas Chung said in his blog.
For those who don't know how to build a rpm He has a how-to posted at his blog.
http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=656
Or if you don't want to build one, i'll host the one i build at my Site for a few days

Here is the URI
firefox 1.0.4

save it to your desktop
install it as follows

Code:

rpm -Uvh firefox-1.0.4-20050509.i386.rpm

confirm the install with this image

ilja · #2 11th May 2005, 06:31 PM

thx,
moved to software.

malikmaz · #3 14th May 2005, 06:56 AM

thanks much!

Lluisanunez · #4 15th May 2005, 02:04 PM

Great! But I'm trying to install it and I get this message:

Quote:

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:firefox ########################################### [100%]
[Invalid UTF-8] Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/alc.desktop': desk top entry contain line 'Comment[fr]=Cr\xe9ateur de liens ed2k d'aMule' which is not UTF-8

I can see it is some comment in a menu element created by aMule. I use aMule but not AmuleLinkCreator, so, how could delete the thing?

thanks

jim · #5 15th May 2005, 03:17 PM

Don't know what all that is

how did you install it the EXACT command you used

ilja · #6 15th May 2005, 03:38 PM

It's a usual fault, that is not important. The description uses wrong coding in the french part.

Lluisanunez · #7 15th May 2005, 04:52 PM

I did

Code:

rpm -Uvh firefox-1.0.4-20050509.i386.rpm

after saving the rpm from your pge. After closing Firefoz I coudn't run it any more. The directory /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.3 had been emptied, but for the plugins directory, and I had a new installation at /usr/lib/firefox, but it lacked some libraries and wouldn't start. So I removed the installation and now I'm back to 1.0.3

Lluisanunez · #8 15th May 2005, 04:57 PM

Yes but it caused the firefox installer to halt the installation

blammo · #9 15th May 2005, 05:27 PM

I've had good luck just installing it from the tar archive. You can download it from the Firefox page and run the installer.
After downloading the file just extract the files in it:

Code:

tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.4.installer.tar.gz

Then change to the firefox-installer directory that was created and run the install file:

Code:

./firefox

I've installed mine in a directory in my home directory but you'll need to be root to install it any where else. The tar archive contains all the libs and whatnot needed to run so you won't have any conflict or dependency problems as with the rpm.

Lluisanunez · #10 15th May 2005, 05:53 PM

This was my first try, but it gave me an error 'cos it couldn't open libxpstub.so. I guess I'll wait a couple of days, I'm reading lots of small problems with 1.0.4
Thanks anyway