Closed Bug 1935357 Opened 2 months ago Closed 2 months ago

Generate non-Debian native Linux packages for non-stable releases.

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(Firefox :: Installer, task)

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Linux
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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213920

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(Reporter: zn7esutb, Unassigned)

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Details

Steps to reproduce:

  1. I attempted to locate an .RPM installation package for Firefox Nightly.

  2. I located wiki.mozilla.org/Nightly#Is_Nightly_available_as_a_.deb/.rpm?, which stated the undermentioned (paraphrased):

    Is Nightly available as a .deb/.rpm?

    As of October 2023, we now officially provide a .deb repository for Debian-based distros (example: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc).

    Mozilla does not provide yet .rpm packages, but our tar.bz2 binaries work on all distributions which meet Firefox system requirements.

  3. I located connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/provide-native-non-deb-linux-packages-for-firefox-nightly/idi-p/28849, and subscribed to it. It was incredibly popular. However, it is now 404 (for me, at least), per the undermentioned (verbatim) quotation from the aforementioned URI:

    The idea you are trying to access is not available.

    I'm not conspiratorial, and Mozilla's forum software is very poorly maintained (per id=1864191) so I'll assume that it's because the request was approved in some manner, and thus considered to be no longer necessary. Irrespective, I don't see the effort tracked anymore. Certainly not at Bugzilla.

Actual results:

I was unable to install Firefox Nightly without utilizing snap install --channel=latest/edge. However, snap install is currently non-functional on Fedora, per discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/7. No flatpak counterpart appears to exist, even in flathub-beta.

Additionally, Chrome Canary very recently became available for both .Deb and .RPM-based OSes, per askubuntu.com/revisions/1534342/.

Expected results:

I should be able to install Firefox Nightly on .RPM installer-based OSes, like Fedora and openSUSE's.

OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → All
See Also: → 247293, 283806, 138695, 91101, 600317

Yeah, we have been discussing about doing it.
No eta yet but probably in 2025

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 months ago
Duplicate of bug: firefox-rpm-repackage
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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