Re: Building FF 45 with ANPM?

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:

As Salaam Aleikum!


>> 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?
> 
> When you install ANPM, it will download a bunch of RPM packages and 
> install them in @UNIXROOT\usr after asking which drive to use for 
> @UNIXROOT (set UNIXROOT=x: in config.sys where x: is a drive with room 
> for perhaps a GB of files). It'll also adjust your config.sys to put 
> x:\usr\lib close to the front of LIBPATH.
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> This is only needed for really old versions of FF, before v4 IIRC.
> 
>> Remember that this system only have 640Mib RAM and a 800MHz
>> Pentium-III processor.
> 
> Hmm, FF45 is going to be hard to run with that little memory and slow 
> with that CPU. It may not even be worth using as the CPU will be pegged 
> too long and likely the swap file will thresh.
> You will need patience to run it
> Dave

Then She skips FF45 but goes for the FF31 instead. Inside the README.OS2 
it's recommended using RPM-YUM to install the various packages mentioned 
in it, the full RPM-YUM She's having on Her system is 
rpm-yum-base-os2-i686-2017-06-10.exe and rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_3.wpi of 
which the newest is the rpm-yum-base-os2-i686-2017-06-10.exe. Can She 
install or must She get a newer version? Another problem witH FF10.0.2 
and FF17.0.11ESR is that they don't manage to complete downloads: even 
urlresume don't go to completion. So could She use NFTP/2 to go into 
Netlabs to fetch the latest rpm-yum? But another guy gave Her the advice 
to use the "famtree" site (if She remembers the name correctly) for 
getting those RPM packages that FF31 requires? So what should She 
choose? What should She choose? (from a spoof of a dark prophesy for us 
that have read Robert Jordan's "Wheel Of Thme" book series where the 
original two stanzas reads in original: "Daughter Of The Night / She 
walks again" and the spoof is "Daughter of The Net / She surfs again".
If any of you are Jordanites, i.e. likes "Wheel of Time" books, look up 
the spoof and you will get a good laugh :-)


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