[oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

2013-06-20 Thread E W
I originally posted this on the wiki page for tasks. The suggestion was to check with the mailing lists. So, I'm new to OI myself and finally made the jump from using the live DVD to an on HDD install. How do we go about getting newer releases on specific packages? I'm typing this in Firefox

Re: [oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

2013-06-20 Thread 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' repo

Re: [oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

2013-06-21 Thread David Höppner
you can also take a look at hipster. https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland -- David On 21 June 2013 01:21, E W wrote: > I originally posted this on the wiki page for tasks. The suggestion was to > check with the mailing lists. > > > > > > So, I'm new to OI myself and finally made the jump

Re: [oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

2013-06-29 Thread Nikola M.
On 06/21/13 01:21 AM, E W wrote: > > So, I'm new to OI myself and finally made the jump from using the live > DVD to an on HDD install. > > How do we go about getting newer releases on specific packages? > > I'm typing this in Firefox and wondering how to get a new version of > that running. Based

Re: [oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

2013-07-20 Thread E W
That would be awesome! Thanks for the notes. I've got an oi VM running now that I should be able to break and roll back if needed. What sort of availability do you have for that kind of correspondence? On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Nikola M. wrote: > On 06/21/13 01:21 AM, E W wrote: > >