Re: Building FF 45 with ANPM?

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> Dave Yeo wrote:
>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>
> As Salaam Aleikum!
>
>>>> 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
>>
>
> Can ANPM be called from the command line like:
>
> ANPM.EXE m:\anpm\temp (where the unpacked FF45 lives)?
>
> She thinks that this will start the ANPM program, first it will download
> the latest rpm-yum and then processing the FF45 files, and then FF45
> will be ready to use? And when we are on the subject of the old
> profiles, i.e. those that FF17.0.1ESR uses, can the relevant files like
> the .sql files and the .db files be imported so they will be correctly
> formatted for FF45?

No. You don't have the Firefox RPM. You have to start ANPM and go to 
Manage --> Yum Tools --> Quick install and copy & paste the list of 
requirements in the listbox.
The profile will be fine.
Dave