Re: download issue, Yum

** Reply to note from [email protected] Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:00:02 +0000
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> >> 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?

 All the extra libraries do not go in \firefox directory as they could be used by many apps. Usually go in usr\lib but could
go in any directory specified in 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.

 Someone else mentioned above script was for earlier version than Firefox 4. So why do you need it?

> 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?

 If every method does not complete downloads, then your system or connection has a problem. FF10 and urlresume
download multi-gb here, as does everything else. The odd time a server gets overloaded and connection is dropped.
If the rpm versions functioned when issued, they should still function today. Is there newer versions some place? If you
had extracted FF31, ran pmdll on exe and dll files, downloaded approprate zip files, you would have done in 2 hours.

 Either choose rpm or zip and get at it.

        Cal