(SOLVED) Gentoo n00b - Firefox 4.0 64bit (amd64)

[nunnst]

Just installed Gentoo on amd64. Would like Firefox 4.0 64bit but can't figure out how to get it.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Biert]

Just installed Gentoo on amd64. Would like Firefox 4.0 64bit but can't figure out how to get it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Add the following packages to package.keywords (read here how):
www-client/firefox
net-libs/xulrunner
dev-libs/nss
dev-libs/nspr

Then type "emerge firefox" and wait for emerge to finish


I suggest you read up on the wonderful things portage can do, for example here.

[nunnst]

Just installed Gentoo on amd64. Would like Firefox 4.0 64bit but can't figure out how to get it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Add the following packages to package.keywords (read here how):
www-client/firefox
net-libs/xulrunner
dev-libs/nss
dev-libs/nspr

Then type "emerge firefox" and wait for emerge to finish


I suggest you read up on the wonderful things portage can do, for example here.

Thanks! Didnt realize I needed to add the nss, nspr, and xlsrunner lines. Had already added the firefox line the the package.keywords file. It's compiling as I write.

Have read so much my eyeballs are burning. Moving to Gentoo is frankly more more complex that the ubuntu/arch linus distro's however both were bogging my old hardware down too much. So far Gentoo is blazing fast in comparision.

[Biert]

Just installed Gentoo on amd64. Would like Firefox 4.0 64bit but can't figure out how to get it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Add the following packages to package.keywords (read here how):
www-client/firefox
net-libs/xulrunner
dev-libs/nss
dev-libs/nspr

Then type "emerge firefox" and wait for emerge to finish


I suggest you read up on the wonderful things portage can do, for example here.

Thanks! Didnt realize I needed to add the nss, nspr, and xlsrunner lines. Had already added the firefox line the the package.keywords file. It's compiling as I write.

Have read so much my eyeballs are burning. Moving to Gentoo is frankly more more complex that the ubuntu/arch linus distro's however both were bogging my old hardware down too much. So far Gentoo is blazing fast in comparision.

You can specify specific versions of the software you want to emerge. If you had typed "emerge >=www-client/firefox-4.0" it would have told you which packages were unavailable and in need of unmasking.


By the way, since Firefox 4 is in the main portage tree, you didn't have to post this in "unsupported software". Desktop Environments would have been more appropriate.

[dahoste]

Note that you might end up needing to add net-libs/libproxy to keywords as well. When FFv4 requires >=xulrunner-2.0, that conflicts with the current stable libproxy (0.4.6), which specifies =xulrunner-1.9*, so you have to allow libproxy-0.4.6-r2 which is compatible with xulrunner-2.0.

At least, that's what I had to do, as I had some pkgs that required libproxy. If you don't, then don't worry about it.