firefox not installable (files removed from server)

keba · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 328 Location: Switzerland

Hi,
I have been running into a problem. Apparently, Mozilla doesn't think it's necessary to keep sources or binary files of older versions of Firefox any more. As a result, firefox-5.0.tar.bz2 and firefox-4.0.1.tar.bz2 have been removed from their (Mozilla's) servers, which makes the ebuilds useless (it's impossible to download the files, I have checked on Mozilla's servers because I thought I could download manually). Only the source of the newest version is available.
Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Is this a mistake by Mozilla or are they doing this on purpose?
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grimm26 · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject:

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-US works for me.
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keba · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 328 Location: Switzerland

So now I've downloaded it using http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-5.0&os=linux&lang=en-US and placed the file in /usr/portage/distfiles, but when I run emerge -1 firefox-bin, he still wants to download the file...
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barul · Guru Joined: 28 May 2010 Posts: 434

Look into the ebuild which filename it wants, then rename it.

keba · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 328 Location: Switzerland

Well I have ended up copying the firefox-bin-5.0 ebuild and by just renaming it to firefox-bin-5.0.1.ebuild (and of course putting it into my /usr/local/portage/ directory), I've managed to install it.
This does not solve the issue though, that is that the ebuild in the tree can not be installed... And I think the problem lies with Mozilla.
Thanks anyway
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