Firefox 3.6 not in openSUSE 11.2 repo?

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What is the official status of Firefox 3.6 in openSUSE? I’ve been hearing a lot about a critical security error and that it might also be a FUD, but I haven’t heard about any progress. I’m just wondering who could be taking a look or who is in charge of the openSUSE repo that will have it and how is the progress in uploading FF 3.6?

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It’s in this repo

Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/ Mozilla


zypper dup -r Mozilla
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Ah I see. Now how is it that I can update FF 3.5.2 to FF 3.5.8 but not to FF 3.6 automatically without having to add a repo? Not that I’m complaining, I just find it weird.

4

Just the way it is.

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Standard practice with a openSUSE release is to stick with the software version that was released so that other packages that may depend on the particular version don’t break. FF3.6 is considered a new product. However you are free to supplement the packages that came with the release. You will find FF3.6 in 11.3.

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Hi
That’s because the security fixes are backported into the 3.5.8
version, so the only thing you get updating to 3.6 are the feature
changes…

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I tried to run that script to upgrade and I get a message that root privileges are required. How do I convince the terminal application that I do indeed have root privileges?

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You do not have root privileges unless you have switched to root. Before running a command that needs admin-privileges, you need to run

su -

You will be asked for root’s password (which you’ll have to type blindly for there are no replacement characters for keystrokes!), then you may execute the above command.

Always be careful when doing something as root and switch back to the regular user as soon as the task is done (on console by hitting Ctrl + D or simply closing the terminal-window).