Re: Modern web browser for Solaris 7
From: James Cornell (penguin_at_unixdevil.org)
Date: 06/15/05
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:24:51 GMT
Patrick L. Nolan wrote:
> I'm still in the stone age. My desktop machine at work is an
> Ultra 5 with Solaris 7. The best web browser currently available
> on it is Mozilla 1.1/5.0. I'd like to move to something more
> modern. In have tried the binary downloads of Firefox and
> Opera, but they aren't happy about the versions of some libraries.
> Is there something that works? Or something I can compile from
> source?
>
Blastwave.org search for firefox try the package again.
Try sunfreeware.com as well if bw doesn't work.
>From source, use gcc 3.x from blastwave packages, they fix the broken
Solaris headers. Untar firefox and prey something works out of configuring
it. Make sure you have glib and gtk libraries installed, and moderately
modern ones.
-- James Cornell Unix Systems Administrator http://www.unixdevil.org
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