Install Firefox Lorentz Beta and Gwibber 2.29.92.1 in Fedora 12, Constantine

Written on April 11th, 2010 at 19:25 pm by chia

Fedora users, now you can install the new Firefox Lorentz Beta 3.6.3 plugin1 and Gwibber 2.29.92.1 in Fedora 12. As we have already seen Firefox Lorentz Beta comes with OOPPs which protects the browser in case of plugin crashes. And you should upgrade you gwibber to experience the new features in this great microblogging tool.

How to install Firefox Lorentz Beta in Fedora

The rpm for Lorentz is available in the remi-test repos for Fedora 12. So, you can update your current installation directly by running this command.

[chia]$ su -c 'yum --enablerepo=remi-test update firefox'

You might get an error "error getting data for remi-test info, repository not found". So, you can enable remi and remi-test repos by running the following commands.

[chia]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

[chia]$ su -c 'wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-fedora.repo'

Now, you can easily update your current Firefox to Lorentz by running the command above.

How to install Gwibber 2.29.92.1 in Fedora

The Gwibber version present in the default repos is 1.2.0, way older than time. So, you might want to try out the latest rpm for gwibber 2.29.92.1. This release is present in the updates-testing repository. You can install it using the following command.

[chia]$ su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gwibber'

In case you have it already installed, you can simply run update.

[chia]$ su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gwibber'

Since, these releases are not in the mainstream, they might be a little buggy. So, don't panic in case of weird crashes(at least not expected from Firefox Lorentz )