On 12/11/2011 08:20 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote:
> Am 07.12.2011 12:29, schrieb Eva Myers:
>
>> Sadly pkgs.org has nothing newer than firefox 3.6.24 for SL5.
>
> AFAIK the major problem with Mozilla>4 and SL5 (aka RHEL5 and CentOS5)
> is the libstdc++ in use - you cannot compile the sources out of the box
> without updating.
> So I doubt that somebody will port it..
>
> GS
>

Up until I switched the last enduser system to EL 6 (SL 6) from EL 5 a 
few months ago, I was installing all of the Mozilla end user suites with 
no issue from the Mozilla site:  Firefox, Thunderbird/Lightning, and 
Seamonkey.  These were not the RPMs but rather the compressed tar files 
that I simply untar into a subdirectory (generally, /usr/lib/foobar as 
in /usr/lib/firefox -- and run /usr/lib/firefox/firefox ).

I now am doing this for SL 6.

I was and am not encountering any issues, and thus getting both the 
latest "features" as well as the latest security updates.

I do the same for the OpenOffice suite from Oracle, although that has a 
special GUI installer and comes packaged as a set of RPMs.  I am not 
running any Linux distribution port of either Mozilla or OpenOffice.

Yasha Karant