Installing Firefox 1.5 under FC3/FC4

Adam Gibson agibson at ptm.com
Fri Jan 20 16:33:12 UTC 2006


Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> */Chris Spencer <gmane.20.evilspam at spamgourmet.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     Also, many have asked why Fedora has not yet adopted Firefox 1.5,
>     yet no
>     one's really given an explanation. It's been out for over a month now,
>     and I've been using it on other distros and even Windows without issue.
>     Is 1.5 difficult to package, unstable, not fully tested, or what?
> 
> I dnloaded the tarfile 1.5, directly from Mozilla, and it complains that 
> it needs libstdc++. ver 5, and I've got ver 4. as part of my FC4 
> install. To update to libstdc-5 there are a bunch of gcc updates. Well, 
> I'm trying it... it'll go or blow. <crossing fingers> Yum is working 
> it's butt off, as I type.

yum install compat-libstdc++-33

to get the libstdc++ 5 on FC4.




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