Installing Firefox-OT

[Billy Pollifrone]

Ok. Let's suppose I write Kfoo program. It's an open source program. I
decide to put it on Sourceforge. I release version 2.0. Kubuntu or
Debian or whatever may not include 2.0 in their distro. I may consider
it stable, but that doesn't mean it is stable in any or all distros.
It could take a few days, or it could take a rather long time before
it is tested and released and placed in the corresponding
repositories. That's a good thing. There are bleeding edge distros and
there are ones on the other end of the spectrum.

The source being available in the repository satisfies the GPL
requirement (rather nicely I might add) but that doesn't mean that
Kfoo will be 2.0 in the repository. If you want to compile the HEAD
version, you are free to do so. Sooner or later the Kfoo for the
distro will be 2.0 after it has been tested.

As I said in an earlier posting, I recommend checking out the
"checkinstall" package if you tend to compile and install source so
that you can create a deb package should you decide to remove it
later. You never know if you'll like what you put in.

- Billy

On 9/18/06, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Billy.
> Please forgive me for not fully understanding. I've
> just completed my first compile or rather Rune
> Baggetun
> took me by the hand and walked me through it step by
> step. Thanks for kind people like Rune.
> Ok, I understand that you get the source code from the
> author site such as "mplayerplug-in-3.31" from the
> mplayerplug-in download uri at sourceforge.net. And I
> gather from your comments that you wont get this from
> the Kubuntu mirrors only kernel source codes. Got that
> if I'm correct so far. What I don't fully understand,
> or accept, is your statement that "The
> source repository
> should only be the same version as the available
> binary and ... ." Which suggests that I should only
> compile for the sake compiling on my distro not for
> upgrading purposed; of course, I'm likely
> misunderstanding you. My mozilla-mplayer-3.17 dapper
> 6.0.6-1 just wont play embedded videos. So, at Rune's
> suggestion we compiled the cvs version 3.31 and now I
> can play embedds on mozilla browser. Someone on
> Kubuntu users, I think, recently told me that a tar.gz
> for mplayerplug-in or maybe it was mozilla-mplayer,
> version 3.30. was available from Kubuntu mirrors(which
> one?) which is what prompted my original OT question.
> I'm just trying to understand how to get a newer
> version of mozilla-mplayer, or mplayerplug-in via some
> Kubuntu mirror(not necessarily supported ones) as the
> version 3.17 available just wont work for me. Thanks
> for your insight.
>
> >
> > I should've been clearer and stated that I was
> > referring to using
> > source code provided by the author (usually their
> > site of sf.net) as
> > opposed to waiting for the distro to release it. The
> > source repository
> > should only be the same version as the available
> > binary and is
> > intended as a means of distributing the source as
> > required by the GPL.
> > Note that a propietary or non-open package may not
> > have the source
> > available.
> >
> > - Billy
> >
> >
> > On 9/16/06, Leonard Chatagnier
> > <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: "Billy Pollifrone"
> > <billy at silverbaseball.com>
> > > <snip>
> > > > I wanted to add that you'd do an apt-get update
> > and
> > > > then an apt-get
> > > > upgrade when a new version is put in the
> > > > repositories and you'll get
> > > > the newest one. You can always put the source
> > > > version in, which tends
> > > > to release sooner, but then you'll need to
> > manually
> > > > upgrade. If you do
> > > > alot of source installing, you may want to look
> > into
> > > > "checkinstall"
> > > > which allows you to create a deb file from your
> > > > source so that you may
> > > > use dpkg to remove it later.
> > > >
> > > > - Billy
> > > >
> > > Billy,
> > > You mentioned above "You can always put the source
> > > version in, which tends
> > > to release sooner, but then you'll need to
> > manually
> > > upgrade." I have looked for several source
> > packages
> > > with apt search, show and can't find them. I have
> > all
> > > the deb src's listed in my sources.list. Would you
> > > explain, please, how you access the source
> > > files(mplayerplug-in for one, mozilla-mplayer-3.30
> > > another) and get them into the cache file. Once
> > there
> > > I think I could compile/install. I'm sure I have
> > > forgotten something as I've downloaded kernel
> > source
> > > before. Appreciate any enlightenment.
> > >
> > > Leonard Chatagnier
> > > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > >
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