Firefox 2.0 parallel install

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sun Oct 22 10:21:30 UTC 2006


Hi!

Gawain Lynch schrieb:
>
> For those of us that want to use Firefox 2 to browse on FC6 without
> having to rebuild half of the system, I have *hacked* up a quick
> solution that allows a parallel install of FF2 along side FC6's 1.5x.
> 
> It is a buildit it yourself deal and you will need the bits at
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~gawain/firefox2-SRPM-bits.tar.bz2 as well
> as Christopher's SRPM from http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/ to
> make it all happen.
> 
> If there is interest I will update this for FF2 final on the 24th.

Well, if
 - it really doesn't conflict with the base package and it's files
 - FF2 definitely won't go into FC6 as a update
then why not put your FF2 in Fedora Extras 6?

CU
thl




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