Re: Building FF 45 with ANPM?

Dave Yeo <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Sep 2019 07:31:46 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> ANPM is a package manager, it installs programs (in the form of RPM's)
>> along with all their dependencies. If you had access to the Firefox
>> RPM, you would just choose it and click install.
>>
>
> But it *WANTS* rpm-yum, so last time She tried ANPM it began downloading
> rpm-yum with took a long time, so She killed the app. But can She
> install the

Yes, ANPM is just a front end to RPM/YUM.

>
> <$quote>
> rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_3.wpi
> rpm-yum-base-os2-i686-2017-06-10.exe
> </quote>
>
> and whih of the above file should She run, the .wpi file or the .exe file?

Running ANPM will take care of it. You need the newest bootstrap as 
possible, which ANPM knows about.

>
> Then unzip the firefox-45.9.0-2.en-US.os2.zip to m:\tools\anpm\temp and
> then fire up ANPM? The archive contains a file listing a lot of hell
> libraries, but ANPM She hopes is intelligent enough to just install the
> required libs for FF45 and not all of them.

There's a lot of files that will get installed
Dave