Firefox 2 on Dapper

Freddy Martinez freddymartinez9 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 14:34:55 UTC 2007


Also, mismatch libraries (errors like "depends on 2.5 but 2.4 will be
installed") cause a major headache. Like I said before, /opt is the way to
go. Cheers.

On 1/17/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 21:11, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> > At least one of these is going to break binary compatibility with 2/3 of
> > the packages on your system, because some funky library is built in a
> way
> > that doesn't allow concurrent installations of version X and version Y
> of
> > the lib, so to install the next version of some dependency five layers
> > down, you've got to rebuild 700 tarballs to keep everything working.
>
> You forgot to mention that sometimes a dependency just won't install
> because
> it conflicts with a library or other dependency of other apps already
> installled.  It is not just a matter of finding the dependencies, but also
> making sure they are compatible with existing software.
>
> Unlike apt, RPMs, though binary often presented this problem.
>
> The nice thing, Donn, is that the "big apps" like Firefox and OpenOffice,
> are
> usually self contained and can be installed in /opt without worrying about
> dependencies.
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