Mozilla 1.3 ebuilds [Now In Portage!]

count · Last edited by count on Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:58 pm; edited 1 time in total

Anyone know of any Mozilla 1.3 ebuilds? or when they will be ariving to portage.
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nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

based on my personal experience Id say that it will come out when 1.3 is close to stable... but if youre keen on using unstable ebuilds, you might want to emerge mozilla-1.3_beta.ebuild...

is there any reason why you want to use mozilla 1.3?
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count · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject:

Not the beta. I know thats there. the official 1.3 version was released today

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

There is already a request in bugzilla. Let's see... :roll:

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solidunit · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject:

is gtk2 support considered stable in this version ?

Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

I was suprised not to see an ebuild already posted up.

Slashdot announced the 1.3 stable mozilla a few hours ago.

Bytal · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:26 am Post subject:

GTK2 works well with Galeon but I believe that it interferes with, at least in my case, imwheel in such a way that it renders my intellimouse explorer's side buttons useless. Except for that I have not seen any problems with either Galeon-cvs or mozilla with gtk2 but then again because of this I haven't used them much. Also there might be problems with copy/paste but that might've been take care of already, don't really know

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nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

ok, sorry, guess I wasnt up-to-date...

I also like to have the latest software installed, but I also put emphasis on stability, so Ill wait a little before switching to 1.3
(besides I solved many problems related to 1.2 when I switched to kernel 2.5.64 and applied the ingo-linus.patch - try this)
good luck anyways
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MrJ412 · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Shawnee, KS

Sorry nerdbert, but I couldn't help but giggle a little at your last comment... One sentence is about stability and waiting, and the next is about installing a development kernel...

:lol:

Anyway, I am also glad that mozilla 1.3 has been released. I have been using 1.3 nightly builds in windows and find the new junk mail filter to be really nice...

nephi513 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 21

I've been using the 1.3 cvs builds for some time and the new 1.3 is great. It has so many stability fixes that I'm amazed.

The only problem I've run into is installing over 1.3b. The mail program aways freezes when I do this. Even with the Final version. So it is proble a good idea to uninstall or unmerge the beta version first before you install it.

It is much faster at rendering pages and it has never crashed on me sence I figure out the mail problem I stated above.

Vancouverite · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 9:30 am Post subject:

1.3 is a nice upgrade from 1.2.1 here's a hack to get it until an official ebuild is ready (worked for me)

1) in /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla rename mozilla-1.3_beta.ebuild to mozilla-1.3.ebuild and edit it.
2) comment out this line (186): cd ${S}; epatch ${FILESDIR}/1.3/${PN}-1.3-provider-shutdown.patch
3) ebuild /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.3.ebuild digest
4) USE="-gtk2" emerge mozilla

Gotta love portage and ebuilds!

Useful Idiot · Guru Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 329 Location: Finland

You don't need that third step. Doing ebuild /path/to/ebuild digest causes package(s) to be fetched automaticly.

Also you might want to copy the new ebuild to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY tree instead of the main portage tree or it will be removed when you do emerge sync.

Vancouverite · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 10:10 am Post subject:

You're right, I didn't know it would grab the tarball. I've edited it.

count · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:45 pm Post subject:

Craigo · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:50 pm Post subject:

I just compiled mozilla 1.3 on two machines (AMD XP1800+ and Intel Pentium 4 Mobile 1.8ghz). Loads up amazing fast!

I am seriously considering switching from phoenix to mozilla again for this. Phoenix is still a good browser but everything is real quiet on their development side?

Unless I get the nightly build....... hmm!

-/Craigo/-

count · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:58 pm Post subject:

Craigo · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

I'm still impressed with Mozilla 1.3 at the moment. Just a few configuring here and there needed. Then bam, you got a decent browser.

Just need to add java plugins though.. which is still a mystery why it isn't showing up in mozilla plugins page....

-/Craigo/-

count · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject:

Craigo · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:47 pm Post subject:

Just switched to blackdown 1.4.1 and pow! Java works! Wow! At last!

Now I can get on with my little article of my guide to setting up this laptop!

-/Craigo/-

herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

count · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:59 pm Post subject:

Just wanted to post a link to the bug report for the mozilla 1.3 ebuild

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17466
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jufoa · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject:

patient guys, consider how long other distro users will have to wait for this.. couple of days isn't so bad =)

Vancouverite · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject:

nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin