[oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

[Michael Schuster]

Hi,

firefox for Solaris (and descendants) is maintained outside of the 'normal'
infrastructure, you need to download it from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/contrib and
install using 'pkgadd' (if that's the one you select).

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 et.al very much these days,
so things may have changed).

HTH
Michael


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:21 AM, E W <whatup.dub at gmail.com> wrote:

> I originally posted this on the wiki page for tasks. The suggestion was to
> check with the mailing lists.
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> So, I'm new to OI myself and finally made the jump from using the live DVD
> to an on HDD install.
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> How do we go about getting newer releases on specific packages?
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> 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?
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> I'm not a developer, but am willing to jump in and learn.
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> Is it just a matter of there not being someone to create a build and
> package it?
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> Is it an issue with packages available upstream?
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> Is this something that can be contributed?
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> Sorry if this wasn't the best place to post this, but it seemed like it at
> the time.
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> Thank you,
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> -Eric W.
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Michael Schuster
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