Install Firefox

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 06:50 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Basanta Shrestha
> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > Please check my repo list at this configuration file.
> > http://pastebin.ca/2384881
> >
> > and xulrunner and firefox version
> > xulrunner-13.0-1.fc17.armv7vl
> > firefox-12.0-1.fc17.armv7hl
> 
> Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and matching) builds
> for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching (so
> 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest stable updates
> into the build you would have matching ones AFAICT from koji so
> there's some other issue.
> 
> I'm not sure what the following lines translate to but you should
> never use the koji repositories as repos as they contain all sorts of
> randomly tagged bits that the release repos don't.
> 
> olpc_frozen_1=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl
> olpc_frozen_2=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl-updates-12.1.0
> 
> Peter
> 

Thought that was the official way of using OOB once the release enters
the frozen state. Please advise.

Jerry

> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 08:08 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
> >> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Basanta Shrestha
> >> > <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> >> > > Adding firefox did install firefox but gave following error while
> >> > > trying to
> >> > > execute on XO:
> >> > > --------------------
> >> > > $ firefox
> >> > > Error: Platform version '13.0' is not compatible with
> >> > > minVersion >= 12.0
> >> > > maxVersion <= 12.0
> >> > > ---------------------
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi Basanta,
> >>
> >> Think this has something to do with firefox wanting a specific xulrunner
> >> version. Can you confirm what version is installed with: rpm -q
> >> xulrunner.
> >>
> >> I have a workaround that I used with F14 that should still work with
> >> this situation. Which repos are enabled in olpc-so-builder when you
> >> generate the image?
> >>
> >> Jerry
> >>
> >>
> >> > Looks like an incompatibility with xulrunner, which hasn't been
> >> > successfully built on F17 in a while:
> >> > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=10131
> >> > Maybe Peter has some comments.
> >> >
> >> > You could try an older version of firefox to match the latest (old)
> >> > version of xulrunner available.
> >> >
> >> > Daniel
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
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