<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div style>firefox for Solaris (and descendants) is maintained outside of the 'normal' infrastructure, you need to download it from <a href="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/contrib">ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/contrib</a> and install using 'pkgadd' (if that's the one you select).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>for packages that you got from a 'pkg' repository, 'pkg install <package>' normally does the upgrade for you (or used to when I did such things regularly ... sadly, I don't work on or with OI <a href="http://et.al">et.al</a> very much these days, so things may have changed).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>HTH</div><div style>Michael</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:21 AM, E W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:whatup.dub@gmail.com" target="_blank">whatup.dub@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I originally posted this on the wiki page for tasks. The suggestion was to check with the mailing lists.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
So, I'm new to OI myself and finally made the jump from using the live DVD to an on HDD install.</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
How do we go about getting newer releases on specific packages?</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
I'm typing this in Firefox and wondering how to get a new version of that running. Based on the Package Manager, 3.6.12 is as new as it gets?</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
I'm not a developer, but am willing to jump in and learn.</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
Is it just a matter of there not being someone to create a build and package it?</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
Is it an issue with packages available upstream?</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
Is this something that can be contributed?</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">Sorry if this wasn't the best place to post this, but it seemed like it at the time.</p>
<p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif"> </p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">Thank you,</p><p style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:17.33333396911621px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;padding:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif">
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-Eric W.</p></div></div></div>
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