Re: Building FF 45 with ANPM?

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>

As Salaam Aleikum!

>> 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
> 

Inside the firefox-45.9.0-2.en-US.OS2 there exist a file called 
RPM_REQUIREMENTS, and She think that this file tells ANPM which libs it 
must install, or are She totally out in the blue here?


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