Which is the right package to install

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 29 22:30:04 PDT 2004


> > FreeBSD 5.2
> > ===========
> > 
> > I have following mozilla_firebox packages
> (formerly
> > knownas mozilla_firebird/Firebird) download;
> > firefox-0.8-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz  
> > firefox-source-0.8.tar.bz2
> > firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
> > 
> > I am in uncertainty of which one is the right
> package
> > to install on my OS.  Kindly advise.  Besides are
> > there installation guide contained in the readme
> file
> > which can be found after extraction?
> 
> Those aren't packages.  Either compile the port (in
> which case you
> don't have to worry about what to download) or
> download the package
> from the freebsd.org ftp site.

Hi Kris,

Tks for your advice.

firefox-0.8 is not available on port.  I have searched
following URL manually.

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2-release/Latest/


B.R.
Stephen

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