-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tanveer Singh writes: > Hi, > I am stuck with a RH Enterprise 4.0 desktop at work. Due to very > obvious reasons, upgrading to 5 is not possible. > This leads to a big problem > Frefox 3 won't run because it wants newer pango. > Of course I can build a new pango, but that requires 500 billion other > packages rebuilt and 50000 billion errors and crashes. > Its such a royal mess that I don't even want to go there again(did it > once and ended up screwing everything up, was luckily building in a > separate dir, so rm did the work
> Now this poses a problem. I am stuck with firefox 2 > The only way out? > Somehow get a ff3 static build for linux. Is it possible to get one? I > remember long time back when firefox was firebird, there used to be > some kind gentlemen who used to build static binaries for firebird for > all platforms. How about you *statically* building your own Firefox 3.0 on a box which has all dependencies installed, hmm...? OR or, You can install recent libs in a chroot on your box, and also bind your $HOME in the appropriate location in that chroot, hmm...? Maybe '--installroot' option of yum(8) or '--root' option of rpm(8) might help. HTH - -- ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjKb8YACgkQHy+EEHYuXnSVIQCgzMw8hqkfOV5xvP30X8WNAr7f jQwAmgMpaT60UFuVDNTFdFexpaNzicXe =efqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
