Mozilla Updates for Slackware
Posted on: 03/09/2013 11:02 AM
Updated firefox and thunderbird packages are available for Slackware Linux
mozilla-firefox (SSA:2013-068-01)
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+
Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you.
Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2013-068-02)
New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.4esr-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+
Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you.