Mozilla

Dominic Marks dominic_marks at btinternet.com
Mon May 13 18:00:00 BST 2002


On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:04:01PM -0500, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> 
> Why build this stuff when there are perfectly good packages downloadable?

I'll expand on Jeff's comment a little :)

# pkg_add -v \
http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packages-4-full/www/mozilla-1.0.rc1_1,1.tgz

It has a remote security flaw. But using Mozilla on FreeBSD puts you
into a tiny, tiny minority of Internet users, I think you can choose
to ignore this one.

> j
> 
> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Natalie S. Ford wrote:
> 
> > I have tried installing mozilla from the ports tree but, surprise surprise
> > (IME) I get a compile error and so I thought I would try to install the
> > binary from http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ (candidate1 coz there is none
> > for FBSD in candidate2) and I downloaded the .tar.gz and untarred it but
> > I have no idea what to do next - the website is no help, there is no
> > configure, makefile, installation instructions or any hints...
> > Any ideas guys?
> > 
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