Seems to be a slight problem with the 3b instructions below. The pkg issue of not letting you override it, I have hit more than once since OpenSolaris pkg or pkgadd -A will not give me a veto.
root at motie:/var/tmp# more /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 19 November 2008 root at motie:/var/tmp# pkg uninstall SUNWfirefox Creating Plan /pkg: Cannot remove 'pkg:/SUNWfirefox at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T220640Z' due to the following packages that depend on it: pkg:/slim_install at 0.1,5.11-0.101:20081119T235636Z pkg:/SUNWgnome-help-viewer at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T221715Z So to see if I can install 3.1b3 in a directory of choice but I did not let it get that far since it appears to be looking for packages not listed in the instructions. Any corrections on the desktop-discuss alias which I am not on ? root at motie:/var/tmp# pkgadd -d firefox-3.1b3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg The following packages are available: 1 SUNWfirefox Mozilla Firefox Web browser (i386) 3.1,REV=110.0.4.2009.03.05.10.49 2 SUNWfirefox-bookmark Firefox's default bookmark (i386) ,REV=110.0.4.2009.03.06.14.00 3 SUNWfirefox-devel Mozilla Firefox Web browser - development files (i386) 3.1,REV=110.0.4.2009.03.05.10.49 Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: Processing package instance <SUNWfirefox> from </var/tmp/firefox-3.1b3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg> Mozilla Firefox Web browser(i386) 3.1,REV=110.0.4.2009.03.05.10.49 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Copyright ? 1998-2003 by Contributors to the Mozilla codebase under the Mozilla Public License and Netscape Public License. All Rights Reserved. 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All Rights Reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Licensing and copyright information for SUNWfirefox: License: MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE V1.1 You can find more information in the following directory: /usr/share/doc/SUNWfirefox LICENSE: MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE README.txt: more information about Firefox The sources of firefox-3.1 were downloaded from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.1b3-candidates/build1/source/firefox-3.1b3-source.tar.bz2 Using </usr> as the package base directory. ## Processing package information. ## Processing system information. 112 package pathnames are already properly installed. ## Verifying package dependencies. WARNING: The <SUNWjdsrm> package "Java Desktop System upgrade package remove" is a prerequisite package and should be installed. WARNING: The <SUNWj5rt> package "JDK 5.0 Runtime Env. (1.5.0_17)" is a prerequisite package and should be installed. WARNING: The <SUNWdtbas> package "CDE application basic runtime environment" is a prerequisite package and should be installed. Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWfirefox.2> [y,n,?] n Installation of <SUNWfirefox.2> was terminated due to user request. No changes were made to the system. There are 2 more packages to be installed. Do you want to continue with package installation? [y,n,?] n 2 packages were not processed! root at motie:/var/tmp# Thanks...Les Alan Coopersmith wrote, On 03/06/09 10:57: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [desktop-discuss] HELP: test Firefox 3.1b3 on OpenSolaris > Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:15:25 +0800 > From: Alfred Peng <Alfred.Peng at Sun.COM> > To: OpenSolaris Desktop Discuss <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> > > Hi guys, > > As you might know, we're coming close to the next OpenSolaris 2009.06 > release. The original plan is to deliver Firefox 3.1 into this release, > but the schedule from Mozilla community was delayed. So instead, we > might deliver Firefox 3.1b3 which is about to release in the Mozilla > community. > > The QAs are testing Firefox 3.1b3 on OpenSolaris now. Here I'd also like > to ask helps from the desktop community. If you're running OpenSolaris, > please join us to test this version for Firefox. There is *NO* extra > effort. Just be an end user and use it on your OpenSolaris boxes. > > Please follow the instructions below to install Firefox 3.1b3: > 1. Get the corresponding build from > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/3.1b3-candidates/build1/ > > <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/3.1b3-candidates/build1/>. > 2. Unpack the build. > % bunzip firefox-3.1b3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2. It'll give you > three packages: SUNWfirefox SUNWfirefox-devel SUNWfirefox-bookmark > 3a. For OpenSolaris users who are with the 2009.06 development build > b118, you'll have to uninstall the following packages first and install > the above three packages. It works ok for my own box. Please note this > will probably break something. > % pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWipkg-gui SUNWgnome-python-extras > SUNWfirefox-bookmark SUNWfirefox > % pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWfirefox SUNWfirefox-devel SUNWfirefox-bookmark > 3b. For OpenSolaris users who are with the original 2008.11 release: > % pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWfirefox > % pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWfirefox SUNWfirefox-devel SUNWfirefox-bookmark > 3c. For Solaris Nevada users, you'll have to pkgrm the packages and then > pkgadd the new ones. The default start page is broken as it points to a > local file exists only on OpenSolaris. > > For flash plugins, the latest release 10.0.22.87 is recommended: > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ <http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/>. > > Please restart Firefox to make sure the 3.1b3 release is taken: > "Help"->"About Mozilla Firefox". > > Any problem or feedback for this build will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Alfred > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- Les Wood Sun Microsystems Software Integration Engineering Office: 503-820-3834 x40075 ******************************************************************************* PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is intended for the named recipient(s) only, unless otherwise waived in writing by me. It may contain privileged, proprietary and/or confidential information. 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