Where can I find Firefox 78.7esr .pet file for Slacko 6? (Solved)

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Where can I find Firefox 78.7esr .pet file for Slacko 6? (Solved)

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Where can I find Firefox 78.7esr for Slacko 6.3.2 ? Or Firefox 68esr

Firefox PET-file, the FTP servers has only old versions and even under Slacko it can't find it, these packages are not available, even when package database is updated, before two years it was still possible. :?

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Re: Where can I find Firefox Pet file for Slacko 6

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@rolandradio Help may be via this repository:

https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... owser_Repo

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Re: Where can I find Firefox Pet file for Slacko 6

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Yes super, thanx 8-)

This link is where I mostly visit:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux or
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux

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Re: Where can I find Firefox Pet file for Slacko 6

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@rolandradio :-

Perhaps one of my 'portable' packages, as found here:-

viewtopic.php?t=4083

The ESR versions as published here are FF91. I can't guarantee they'll work in the Slacko 6-series, but you never know until you try..... Worth a try, I would have thought. :)

Mike. ;)

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Re: Where can I find Firefox 78.7esr .pet file for Slacko 6? (Solved)

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Where are these files to find ?

Firefox 78.6
libmoz.so libxul.so libmozsandbox.so liblgpllibs.so libmozsqlite3.so libmozgtk.so libmozwayland.so libmozsqlite3.so libmozavutil.so

VLC
libx264.so.125 and libGLEW.so.1.5 = ffmpeg ???

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Re: Where can I find Firefox 78.7esr .pet file for Slacko 6? (Solved)

Post by OscarTalks »

Roland,
With Firefox, those libs look like the ones that are inside the main firefox directory. If you are doing a dependency check they may appear to be missing but in fact they are NOT, because they are made available so long as you start firefox correctly (it knows where to find them).

For VLC, it needs to be compiled in the same environment as the one in which you are running it (or at least with library versions that match). There is a dependency on ffmpeg which in turn can have dependencies on other libraries such as libx264. Since VLC uses lots of plugins for its functionality, it may start but some things don't work as expected. Bottom line is that you need to obtain a suitable build of VLC (suitable for the specific Puppy). Hunting for libs that appear to be missing may work, but is not the ideal way of approaching things.

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Re: Where can I find Firefox 78.7esr .pet file for Slacko 6? (Solved)

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Firefox is running, while version 78.6 won't start and something is missing, but the right version in this case is Firefox 57 Quantum is working, then auto update (firefox about) it's now updated to version 72.2.
From version 72.2 I can auto update to 94.x.

Solved !

VLC is working but It was the Graph resolution, and also no full screen possible, that's why it plays extreemly slow and with black bars in the video.
Main settings is 1280 but GUI fit programms only in 1024.
The libraries such as libx264 are there but "Check dependencies" think's it's not there.

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