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Re: [opensuse] Installing Firefox 2.0.0.3
- From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:14:05 +0200
- Message-id: <461F2DBD.8050302@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
Pascal Bleser wrote:
> M Harris wrote:
>> On Friday 13 April 2007 01:37, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
>>> Also downloaded the file and tried per hand - nothing.
>>> I finally forced the install - seems to work, but still?
>> Sometimes the dependency thing in Linux is not reliable and causes problems
>> when there really isn't a problem. I have not run into this one installing
>
> Well, "whatever".
> Bugs in software happen, and so they may happen in packages (I mean in
> the metadata, dependencies, etc...).
>
>> FFx 2.0.0.3 (always smooth for me) but, I would say if you forced the install
>> and things seem to be working ok then no problem. You might try posting a
>> question on the Mozilla site.
>
> Definitely not on the Mozilla site as it is a package related issue.
> And that package is not built by someone from Mozilla.
Maybe this should read: "not built by someone from Mozilla Corporation"
> But I didn't run into that problem either.
> I have MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.3-3.2 and it has a dependency to the package
> "gconf2", but not to "gconftool-2".
What's the problem with gconf2? gconf2 contains the gconftool-2 tool so
it should be correct?
Wolfgang
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Pascal Bleser wrote:
> M Harris wrote:
>> On Friday 13 April 2007 01:37, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
>>> Also downloaded the file and tried per hand - nothing.
>>> I finally forced the install - seems to work, but still?
>> Sometimes the dependency thing in Linux is not reliable and causes problems
>> when there really isn't a problem. I have not run into this one installing
>
> Well, "whatever".
> Bugs in software happen, and so they may happen in packages (I mean in
> the metadata, dependencies, etc...).
>
>> FFx 2.0.0.3 (always smooth for me) but, I would say if you forced the install
>> and things seem to be working ok then no problem. You might try posting a
>> question on the Mozilla site.
>
> Definitely not on the Mozilla site as it is a package related issue.
> And that package is not built by someone from Mozilla.
Maybe this should read: "not built by someone from Mozilla Corporation"
> But I didn't run into that problem either.
> I have MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.3-3.2 and it has a dependency to the package
> "gconf2", but not to "gconftool-2".
What's the problem with gconf2? gconf2 contains the gconftool-2 tool so
it should be correct?
Wolfgang
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