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#1 2005-09-08 14:56:53
- nirvanix
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latest versions of firefox and kde
Can someone recommend to me the best way of putting firefox 1.06 and kde 3.4.2 on my arch machine? I see that they have been in testing for a very long time. Does that mean they they're not safe to install? I've heard that firefox 1.06 fixes some security vulnerabilities and I was thinking I should try to use it.
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#2 2005-09-08 15:16:55
- lucke
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Re: latest versions of firefox and kde
KDE 3.4.2 is safe to install, however gcc4 together with glibc and binutils from testing has to be installed with it. That's why KDE 3.4.2 isn't in current yet, it waits for the gcc4 to be moved first.
As for firefox, it's probably safe to install, although it could be compiled against stuff from testing as well.
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#3 2005-09-08 15:43:15
- Dusty
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Re: latest versions of firefox and kde
You could compile the packages from ABS instead of installing the binaries. No idea whether that would be safe or workable though.
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#4 2005-09-08 16:26:17
- nirvanix
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Re: latest versions of firefox and kde
Thanks for your replies. I installed firefox 1.06 from testing, but it would not execute. Error message was:
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct
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#5 2005-09-08 16:42:16
- phrakture
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Re: latest versions of firefox and kde
Thanks for your replies. I installed firefox 1.06 from testing, but it would not execute. Error message was:
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct
You're going to need pango from testing as well... and maybe some other things... you should probably check the firefox deps and install all of them that are in testing...
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#6 2005-09-11 21:38:53
- Gullible Jones
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Re: latest versions of firefox and kde
Somebody posted a PKGBUILD here that used the binaries from mozilla.org, which IIRC are compiled with -march=i686 -Os. I think those should work with NPTL without any problems...
(In fact, I should look for that PKGBUILD.)
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