Firefox 3 for Fedora 8 ??

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 06:53:13 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:31 +0200, wwp wrote:
> Hello Jim,
> 
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:12:24 -0400 Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > wwp wrote:
> > > Hello Jim,
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:29 -0400 Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >   >> wwp wrote:
> > >>     >>> Hello Jim,
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:15 -0400 Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>   >> Is there going to be a Firefox 3 in the FC8 repos. ??
> > >>>       >>>> I have downloaded and installed Firefox 3 from the  FC9 repo.
> > >>>>     >
> > >>>>         >>> Discussed some hours ago, it's available from remi's repos, check the
> > >>> archives of the last few days!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>>   What was the name of  Thread, do you remember ?
> > >>>       >
> > > No, but "Firefox 3" was in the subject for sure ;-).
> > >
> > > Hint, search for posts from Remi Collet and find:
> > >
> > > http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/06/18/Firefox-3-Final
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >   Well I got to the
> > 
> > http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/06/18/Firefox-3-Final
> > 
> > But how do you get it to download the RPM from this site, you click on RPM and it keeps rolling you in circles, from web page to another but no RPM download.
> 
> Try the yum method instead or get xulrunner and firefox-3 packages from
> http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fc8.i386/repoview/. I got no problem w/
> that (and firefox3 stands besides to firefox2, no conflict unless you
> want to return to ffx2).

I got the runaround too, until I found this:
http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config

Just yum install it. Install the remi repo rpm first. It's on that page.
Ric

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