315. Briefly: Compile firefox 18 on debian testing/wheezy

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For no better reason than pure curiosity, here's how to build firefox 18. My regular build environment has so many packages installed these days that it's useless for working out dependencies for other people, so I tried it in a fresh chroot to hammer out the current dependencies beyond a doubt. In other words: it will work for you.

In retrospect I'm not sure if you really need the dev package for libgtk2.0.

sudo apt-get install bzip2 build-essential python zip unzip pkg-config libgtk2.0-dev gconf2 libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev yasm libasound2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxt-dev mesa-common-devmkdir ~/tmp/firefox -pcd ~/tmp/firefoxwget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/18.0/source/firefox-18.0.source.tar.bz2tar xvf firefox-18.0.source.tar.bz2mkdir build/cd build/../mozilla-release/./configure --prefix=$HOME/.firefox18makemake installecho "alias firefox18='$HOME/.firefox18/bin/firefox'" >> $HOME/.bashrcsource $HOME/.bashrc

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firefox18