Re: Announcing Updated Firefox 3 RPMs

[Cody Hurst <churst35 verizon net>]

can I use alien to convert then dpkg to install or will it not work with
such an rpm...

Cody
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 21:53 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> The rpm builds of Firefox 3 available from the
> SpeakupModified-Development yum repository have been updated. These rpms
> are for installations of Fedora Core 6 (Linux) or the forthcoming Fedora
> Core 7 currently under development. They are based on Mozilla downloades
> from December 27 and include current state-of-the-art accessibility
> support. You can retrieve both source and binary rpm packages via ftp,
> http, or rsync. But the best way to keep your Firefox 3 updated is to
> use yum.
> 
> WARNING: This is an early alpha build of Firefox. It is known to
> conflict with yelp and devhelp. You will probably need to remove these,
> and perhaps other rpms in order to install Firefox 3. Please note also
> that support for Firefox 3 in both Orca and LSR is still under active
> development, as is also the accessibility support within Firefox itself.
> 
> To use yum with the Speakup Modified Fedora rpm package repository, you
> must first configure your system to access our repository. You will need
> do this only once. Become root on your FC6 system and issue the
> following command:
> 
> rpm -iv http://SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified-release.rpm
> 
> Thereafter, to update Firefox 3, become root and issue the following
> command all on one line:
> 
> yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=speakupmodified-development update firefox
>