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How to build Firefox RPM package for Fedora Core

This article covers building Firefox 1.5 RPM for Fedora Core 4

1) Install fedora-rpmdevtools

#yum install fedora-rpmdevtools -y

2) Create rpmbuild directory

#fedora-buildrpmtree

3) Download Firefox RPM build files

#wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
Download firefox.spec, firefox.desktop, firefox.png from http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/1.5/

4) Build Firefox RPM binary

# cp *.gz *.desktop *.png ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
# cp *.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
# rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/firefox.spec

5) Install Firefox RPM binary

# sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/firefox-*.rpm

If you get dependency error for libstdc++.so.5, type following command to resolve the dependency:

# sudo yum install libstdc++.so.5