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On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:01:33PM -0400, james wrote |
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> Me, palemoon is my fav browser and it seems to be long term stuck on |
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> python 2.7...... Any suggests on a more secure, feature rich browser |
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> other than palemoon would be interesting to me to at least test. |
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Pale Moon is a Firefox fork and has inherited this dependancy from it. |
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I used to build Pale Moon manually on an older 32-bit CentOS chroot. |
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That CentOS version only went up to python 2.4, which did not work. I |
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had to download a python 2.7 tarball and build it in the home dir (yes, |
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it works). The Pale Moon build toolchain found it and it built OK. The |
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steps are... |
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# Name it whatever you want |
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mkdir pysource |
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cd pysource |
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wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/Python-2.7.18.tar.xz |
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tar xf Py* |
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cd Python-2.7.18 |
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# |
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# Name it whatever you want |
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./configure --prefix=$HOME/py27 |
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make |
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# "su" or "sudo" is not required in the next step. You have write |
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# permission to your home directory. |
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make install |
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The "make" command may take while to build, depending on RAM and CPU |
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in your machine. Afterwards you probably have to include... |
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<dev-lang/python-3.0 |
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...in package.mask and also... |
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=dev-lang/python-2.7.18 |
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...in package.provided. Since the install in $HOME is not done by |
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Portage, it'll be left alone. You may still run into problems if an |
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ebuild looks for python files via hard-coded paths in /usr. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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