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firefox 24.7 on yellow dog linux

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Stephen Harker

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Aug 2, 2014, 2:54:10 AM8/2/14
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In case it is of use to anyone, the recent series of firefox 24 releases
on Centos 5 were able to be built with no great issues with Yellow Dog
Linux. The prerequisites I recall were python26 and python26-devel from
epel and gcc44 from Centos 5. From that it was possible to build nss,
nspr and firefox. There may be some other prerequisites I don't recall
but they all came from the Centos or epel repositories.

On the other hand, Debian 7 installs firefox 24 by default, at least in
an upgrade and is a well-maintained linux distribution for powerpc.

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kb8923

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Aug 29, 2014, 10:52:12 AM8/29/14
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On 02/08/2014 08:54, Stephen Harker wrote:
>
> In case it is of use to anyone, the recent series of firefox 24 releases
> on Centos 5 were able to be built with no great issues with Yellow Dog
> Linux. The prerequisites I recall were python26 and python26-devel from
> epel and gcc44 from Centos 5. From that it was possible to build nss,
> nspr and firefox. There may be some other prerequisites I don't recall
> but they all came from the Centos or epel repositories.
>
> On the other hand, Debian 7 installs firefox 24 by default, at least in
> an upgrade and is a well-maintained linux distribution for powerpc.
>
Thanx for the tip.
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