Re: Building FF 45 with ANPM?

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> Dave Yeo wrote:
>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>>
> 
> As Salaam Aleikum!
> 
>>> 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.

Ok, so She first opens the RPM_REQUIREMENTS in the e.exe editor, selects 
all and paste it to the clipboard and paste it when ANPM asks for the 
libraries. But how do She point ANPM where FF45 lives? Currently it sits 
in y:\firefox\firefox which contains the abovmentioned RPM_REQUIREMENTS, 
but the FF code itself is currently unzipped so where the unzipped file 
go? M:\tools\ANPM\temp perhaps, and how do She tell ANPM where the code 
sits?

Btw, in the README.OS2 file it's mentioned that a script, dbrestore,zip 
should be run BEFORE using FF45 so the profiles will be compatible with 
earlier versions of FF which will be good, escpecially if She wants to 
do a quick visit to for example wikipedia or www.fass.se to look up some 
drugs. Remember that this system only have 640Mib RAM and a 800MHz 
Pentium-III processor.


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