How to install firefox in fedora core 4? (Solved!)

[Joony]

1.04 came with the installation

Downloaded 1.5 in the tar format.

I extracted it into /usr/lib/firefox-1.04 and replaced everything but it dosen't run

I saw an older thread here. Yum dosen't seem to work either.

I tried the make and make install commands in /usr/lib/firefox-1.04 without any success

 

[nweaver]

if your linux distro comes with a package manager, use it. Wait for it to be installable via yum.

 

[sgleo87]

open a terminal, log in as root (use the command "su" and then enter the root password) and use the command "yum update". This will update all the software that is installed on your computer (this can take a couple hours depending on how many updates yum has to download and install). You could also use the command "yum check updates" and then let look for the firefox update in the list that will appear in the terminal and use the command "yum install (full name of update package for firefox)" if you just want to install the firefox update.

 

[Nothinman]

I extracted it into /usr/lib/firefox-1.04 and replaced everything but it dosen't run

And you just broke everything that relied on that older version of FF to be installed and working, don't do that. Stick with what's available in the package manager repositories or you'll end up having a broken system.

 

[Basie]

I have installed Firefox using the tarball format but if I remember correctly I uninstalled the older version
first. Anyway, though I have used Yum in the past I wasnt aware of the " yum check updates " command.
That's very helpful so thanks Sgleo 87 for that info.

 

[Joony]

The one that yum has is an older 1.1 version.

So are you guys saying that it is not possible to use the 1.5 version yet because they haven't made a FC4 version?

edit: I looked around more, and found other people wanting to get the 1.5 version as well.

It seems that people have made RPMs for them, and have some fairly complicated instructions to make it from the tar.

 

[Nothinman]

So are you guys saying that it is not possible to use the 1.5 version yet because they haven't made a FC4 version?

It's possible, it's just more complicated than just untarring the new version over top of the old one and hoping it works.

Technically you could untar the new one into a different directory ( /usr/local/firefox, /home/username/firefox or whatever) and have both installed if you wanted.

It seems that people have made RPMs for them, and have some fairly complicated instructions to make it from the tar.

If someone has already written the spec file for the RPM that's 90% of the work, but creating the RPM from the spec file still requires a little bit of CLI work and probably some other development packages that you don't have installed.

 

[niomosy]

What you need to do is install the correct libstdc++ libraries. The install should tell you what's wrong) as Firefox wants earlier ones than installed. Install the correct libraries for Fedora Core 4 and you should be fine. I installed the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm and Firefox installed just fine.