[SOLVED] ruario's Latest Firefox script stopped working

vtel57 · 09-29-2021, 10:33 AM

Hmm... interesting. I just about an hour ago utilized Ruario's script to download and upgrade from 92.0 to 92.0.1(latest). All went well. I'm still running 14.2, though. Maybe this is why?

ruario · 09-29-2021, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vtel57

I'm still running 14.2, though. Maybe this is why?

Yep, since you do not have the coreutils update in 14.2, chmod still works the same way it did when I wrote that snippet. You would only see the issue with Slackware 15RC

aikempshall · 09-30-2021, 01:54 AM

I fell upon this script yesterday morning as on 14.2 I was getting increasingly frustrated with mozilla-firefox-68.12.0esr I could no longer log onto my BT accoun, Wordpress would fail silently and other sites would have missing functionality.

I was almost at the stage of jumping ship and installing current on all my machines, not just on a test box.

Running the script as

Code:

export FFESR=Y;git clone https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672798 latest-firefox && su -c "sh -x latest-firefox/latest-firefox.sh"

It returned mozilla-firefox-78.14.0esr-x86_64-1ro.tgz which suited my purposes at this time, but I was expecting mozilla-firefox-91.1.0esr-x86_64-1ro.tgz

What have I missed?

vtel57 · 09-30-2021, 10:23 AM

Hey, @aikempshall...

I first used Ruari O's script back in June. I'm running Slack 14.2. The first run took me from FF v68 to v89. Running the script again when FF notified me of updated versions took me to v90, then v91, now v92.x.

I'm not sure why this isn't working this way for you, but I will mention one thing... you need to blacklist Firefox in slackpkg. If you don't, when you run #slackpkg update/upgrade-all, it will downgrade your FF to the version used in stock 14.2.

/etc/slackpkg/blacklist (my blacklist shown below)

Code:

# This is a blacklist file. Any packages listed here won't be
# upgraded, removed, or installed by slackpkg.
#
# The correct syntax is:
#
# To blacklist the package xorg-server-1.6.3-x86_64-1 the line will be:
# xorg-server
#
# DON'T put any space(s) before or after the package name or regexp.
# If you do this, the blacklist will NOT work.

#
# Automated upgrade of kernel packages aren't a good idea (and you need to
# run "lilo" after upgrade). If you think the same, uncomment the lines
# below 
#
#kernel-firmware
#kernel-generic
#kernel-generic-smp
#kernel-headers
#kernel-huge
#kernel-huge-smp
#kernel-modules
#kernel-modules-smp
#kernel-source

#
# aaa_elflibs should NOT be blacklisted!
#

# You can blacklist using regular expressions.
#
# Don't use *full* regex here, because all of the following 
# will be checked for the regex: series, name, version, arch, 
# build and fullname.
#
# This one will blacklist all SBo packages:
#[0-9]+_SBo
#
#
# blacklisting Firefox to prevent reversion to ESR version.
#
mozilla-firefox

Luck with it. Others will probably have helpful information for you. Please stand by...

~Eric

chrisretusn · 10-01-2021, 04:03 AM

In the for what it's worth department, I am building Firefox using source/xap/mozilla-firefox/ for 92.0 and 92.0.1 of the Slackware tree.

vtel57 · 10-01-2021, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

In the for what it's worth department, I am building Firefox using source/xap/mozilla-firefox/ for 92.0 and 92.0.1 of the Slackware tree.

You ol' glutton for punishment.

vtel57 · 06-15-2022, 09:23 AM

Just wanted to drop in here a minute to thank Ruari for that FF updating script. I'm still using it with no troubles at all... up to 101.0.1 as of today.

Cheers!

~Eric L.

onebuck · 06-15-2022, 09:31 AM

Hi,

If you like the FF script then you might like Ponce's modified FF script to get Thunderbird;

Quote:

# This script will find the latest Thunderbird binary package, download it # and repackage it into Slackware format.

# It's shamelessly copied from ruario's latest-firefox.sh script, # hope he doesn't mind. :P# latest-thunderbird Version 0.1

https://gist.github.com/Ponce/0b9e7c...bd447e7009ec2a

Hope this helps.

vtel57 · 06-15-2022, 10:08 AM

Now THAT'S quite interesting, @onebuck! I may consider it. My only problem with upgrading T-bird higher than the current version in Slack 14.2 is the fact that I think quite a few changes have been made to T-bird in the newest versions that I may not care for... not really sure, though. Must research a bit before I try that. Anyway, thanks to you for posting and Ponce for the script!

Didier Spaier · 06-15-2022, 10:28 AM

Want more choice?

Code:

root[/]# latest
Usage: /usr/sbin/latest <application>
Install or uprade a web browser or mail application among:
  chrome   (Google Chrome web browser)
  firefox  (Mozilla Firefox web browser)
  vivaldi  (Vivaldi web browser)
  thunderbird (Mozilla Thunderbird mail application)

To know more, read /usr/doc/latest-browsers/README

root[/]#

source

Caveat: the script proposes to blacklist the application in /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc. A small modification is needed to handle blacklisting if using slackpkg instead of slap-get.

vtel57 · 06-15-2022, 10:41 AM

ALL-IN-ONE-SITE! I like that! Thanks!

vtel57 · 12-20-2023, 07:46 AM

I've been contemplating upgrading (using script above) my Thunderbird. However, jumping from v68.x to v115.x on my Slackware 14.2 is going to be a serious SHOCK to the system, I think.

Has anyone one here tried this already? And did it bork your entire universe or what?

P.S. @didier said: "Caveat: the script proposes to blacklist the application in /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc. A small modification is needed to handle blacklisting if using slackpkg instead of slap-get."

I am using Slackpkg on 14.2. What "small mod" will I need to make and where to make it?

vtel57 · 01-01-2024, 10:19 AM

Well, I had my system crash on me last week. I lost pretty much everything. I've reverted to an older system that I had out in my shop. I'm setting up and customizing this past few days, so I figured since I'm starting out fresh with T-bird, I may as well give Ponce's script a shot. Wish me luck. I'll let you know how things went in a little while.

vtel57 · 01-01-2024, 01:25 PM

Hmm... everything seems to have gone well. I'm now running the latest FF and the latest TB on my system. And was right when I said above going from Thunderbird v68 to v115 was going to be a shock to the system... however, it wasn't the computer that took the shock so much as it was me. BOY! Has TB improved a bit since 68.

Anyway, thanks again to Ruari and Ponce and everyone else around here. Here's wishing ALL OF US a much more pleasant time of it in 2024!

Toodles... gotta' go figure out end-to-end encryption in the new TB now.

~Eric