[gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

[gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

[黄飞]

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the problem arised since my installation of firefox1.5rc series, i tried to
find out any improper settings from about:config, but no luck.

it was a clean emerge of mozilla-firefox-bin (a compiled version of
firefox1.5rc-3 had the same issue). how come this would happen?

the 1.5 version just works on Windows. but not for my gentoo?

anybody here would kindly give me some advice?
thanks in advance.


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daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

[Steven Susbauer]

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It could be edited on purpose by the person that compiled it... since using
the firefox updater doesn't work on Gentoo and you have to update with
portage instead.

On 11/30/05, 黄飞 <daniel.huangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the problem arised since my installation of firefox1.5rc series, i tried
> to find out any improper settings from about:config, but no luck.
>
> it was a clean emerge of mozilla-firefox-bin (a compiled version of
> firefox1.5rc-3 had the same issue). how come this would happen?
>
> the 1.5 version just works on Windows. but not for my gentoo?
>
> anybody here would kindly give me some advice?
> thanks in advance.
>
>
> ----------
> daniel
>



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Steven Susbauer

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[gentoo-user] Re: "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

[fei huang]

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i see, but it seems that i'm the only person who cares, no comments about
such could be googled or be found in GWN.

thanks.

BTW: i subscribed the no-mail version of gentoo-user, and tend to read mail
through google group. what if i would like to follow-up a post? start a new
one is simple though.

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Re: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

[John Holden]

daniel.huangfei@gmail.com wrote:
> the problem arised since my installation of firefox1.5rc series, i tried 
> to find out any improper settings from about:config, but no luck.
> 
> it was a clean emerge of mozilla-firefox-bin (a compiled version of 
> firefox1.5rc-3 had the same issue). how come this would happen?
> 
> the 1.5 version just works on Windows. but not for my gentoo?
> 
> anybody here would kindly give me some advice?
> thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> ----------
> daniel
Use portage to update software; avoid installing/updating software 
manually as much as possible to avoid the risk of breaking stuff.

Type "emerge --update mozilla-firefox" as root.  To my knowledge, 
portage does not provide the binary package of Firefox 1.5.x.


john@linuxserver ~ $ eix firefox
* www-client/mozilla-firefox
      Available versions:  1.0.7-r2 ~1.0.7-r3 *1.5_rc3-r1 *1.5_rc3-r2
      Installed:           1.0.7-r2
      Homepage:            http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
      Description:         Firefox Web Browser

* www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
      Available versions:  1.0.6-r2 1.0.7
      Installed:           none
      Homepage:            http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox
      Description:         Firefox Web Browser


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Re: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

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On 21:39 Sat 03 Dec     , John Holden wrote:
> daniel.huangfei@gmail.com wrote:
> Type "emerge --update mozilla-firefox" as root.  To my knowledge, 
> portage does not provide the binary package of Firefox 1.5.x.
> 
> 
> john@linuxserver ~ $ eix firefox
> * www-client/mozilla-firefox
>      Available versions:  1.0.7-r2 ~1.0.7-r3 *1.5_rc3-r1 *1.5_rc3-r2
>      Installed:           1.0.7-r2
>      Homepage:            http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
>      Description:         Firefox Web Browser
> 
> * www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
>      Available versions:  1.0.6-r2 1.0.7
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox
>      Description:         Firefox Web Browser
> 
> 
> Found 2 matches
> 
> 
> - John
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> 

eix is giving me the same result as yours, but ls
/usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin/ shows up
mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.ebuild

I used the bin package before compiling mozilla-firefox (~x86 here).

-(/home/joham_luis)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(root@galiza_ceive)-`--#
emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5  0 kB



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