I have been running an old version of OpenSuse for a long time and gotMike Walsh wrote:Hi, orrin.
Mm. Yeah; tell me about it! AFAIK, the repositories are always way behind when it comes to the 'big' browsers....Chrome and FireFox. Mostly because they release new versions so often that the repository maintainers can't keep up with them. The bit that banks and other similar institutions are interested in are the certificates being up-to-date.
This is why I do the SFS packages for the community. I, too, needed to keep things up-to-date for online banking, and I got to thinking, 'Right; I can download the .deb packages for Chrome. It's easy enough to unpack them, re-arrange things in a way that will work with Puppy, and then re-package them again.' Only takes around 10 minutes or so now, since I have my scripts all semi-automated & set-up for maximum ease of use. And if they work correctly for me, then why not publish them and let other folks share the benefits?
For the 'buntu-based Pups, invariably all dependencies are satisfied already. Foe the Slackware-based Pups, the most they need to add are libgconf, and libgnomekeyring. Bob's yr uncle...sorted.
And the beauty of SFS packages is that they're really easy to uninstall and change when you want to upgrade. Just 'unload' the old one, then 'load' the new one. Your config and settings in /root/.cache and /root/.config don't need to be touched, since they'll carry on working from version to version.
Puppy Slacko 64-6.3.2 so that I had up to date browsers. I still use SuSe
for record keeping and as it turns out, for the Adobe Reader.
I am not familiar with .sfs files. Is there a tutorial somewhere as to how
to install them in Slacko64, and getting them to run. I read that they
are copied to the mnt/home directory, but how do you run them, and
do I have to uninstall Chrome 46 or will the two versions co-exist.
If Chrome 46 is uninstalled, what happens to the extensions and settings.
Do they somehow carry over to the new version?
Help will be greatly appreciated!