[csw-users] n00bness kicking in

EBradley at williams-int.com EBradley at williams-int.com
Tue Sep 12 16:56:40 CEST 2006


Really?  Hmm...I've used the firefox from that site since 1.0 on both
Sol 9 and 10 on several types of Sun hardware without incident.

I'm sorry that didn't help.  :-\


 
Evan D. Bradley

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org
[mailto:users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:48 AM
To: questions and discussions
Subject: Re: [csw-users] n00bness kicking in

Tried that version and it didnt work :-(

Segfaults for me every time (tbird too).


EBradley at williams-int.com wrote:

>Not to discourage someone using pkg-get, but firefox is available via 
>the web for the Solaris platform.
>
>http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6.html#othersystems
>
>And then it's aaallllll the way down at the bottom of the page in 
>either a tarball or pkgadd format.  The tarball is what I've always
done.
>Untar it, cd into the directory, and your binary is right there.
>
>:)
> 
>Evan D. Bradley
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org] On

>Behalf Of Tim Smith
>Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:32 AM
>To: questions and discussions
>Subject: [csw-users] n00bness kicking in
>
>Ok, I'm trying to upgrade firefox from the ancient 1.0.6 ive been stuck

>with to the new shiny 1.5.whatever that I just noticed is availible.
>
>The problem is, it has a lot of deps that need updating.
>
>Right now, I'm manually re-running pkg-get -i firefox, waiting for it 
>to DL 20 megs, then waiting to see which package dep needs updating, 
>then repeating the process down the chain for each package ....
>
>running pkg-get -h doesnt seem to provide a better way.
>
>Is there a quicker way I can give pkg-get an argument to "update 
>dependancies as needed but dont update everything on my system", as I 
>do
>-NOT- want to invoke a qt/kde update by accident...
>
>does that question make sense?
>
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