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Re: firefox 24.7 on yellow dog linux

From kb8923 <kb@rien.rien>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject Re: firefox 24.7 on yellow dog linux
Date 2014-08-29 16:52 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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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firefox 24.7 on yellow dog linux Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> - 2014-08-02 16:54 +1000
  Re: firefox 24.7 on yellow dog linux kb8923 <kb@rien.rien> - 2014-08-29 16:52 +0200

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