On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Erik Soderquist <erik.soderqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> >> Similar, to but different from Larry's suggestion, can you install Firefox >> on CentOS using the installer from Firefox itself, and not the distro >> version? I can imagine it could be something about flags or settings they >> used when compiling it. >> >> Jack > > I tried a couple times, and am willing to try again; however, I have > not been able to resolve dependency conflicts to get a current version > of Firefox to successfully install, let alone run. I fear this may > have to wait for the host to be wiped and reloaded. Even then, I > don't know what level of success I'll have, as currently it looks like > it will be reloaded with CentOS 6. RHEL/CentOS are known for keeping > solid and stable, not current... > > --- Erik
Trying again; last time i tried it was looking like CentOS was going to skip the 5.9 release entirely... It seems it is there now and (so far) has two of the previously missing dependencies... we will see how far i get... --- Erik -- "I do not think any of us are truly sane, Caleb. Not even you. Courage is not sanity. Being willing to die for someone else is not sanity." ... "Love is not sane, nor is faith." ... "If sanity lacks those things, Caleb, I want no part of it." -- Alexandria Terri in "Weaving the Wyvern" by Alexis Desiree Thorne - http://alexisthorne.webs.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/