Installing old Firefox

[Lovon2]

Hello i am attempting to install an old version of firefox in FreeBSD and i have currently Firefox 2.0.12 and i want to install Firefox 1.0.3 how would i go about doing this??

[Carpetsmoker]

You can either use an old package or use an old portstree, there are several tags you can use with cvsup.

...But...

Why do you want firefox 1.0.3?

[Lovon2]

Im doing some research that requires it, and where would i find an old package?? Cause it seems all packages have latest versions...

[Carpetsmoker]

Ok.
Which version of FreeBSD are you running? You can check with: % uname -v

[18Googol2]

Originally Posted by Lovon2

Im doing some research that requires it, and where would i find an old package?? Cause it seems all packages have latest versions...

http://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/firefox/r.../1.0.3/source/

[Lovon2]

Yeah ive been trying to compile from source code using the

gmake -f client.mk build

and i keep running into a lot of errors and i keep fixing them one by one i was just wondering if there was an easier way of doing this

[Lovon2]

Oh and its FreeBSD 7.0

[Carpetsmoker]

Ok, there is a deleted port for firefox 1.0, you can fetch it with: # cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.at.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co -r old_RELEASE_5_4_0 ports/www/firefox10/

This will put the port in ports/www/firefox10, no need to more it to /usr/ports, it will compile from any location.

portaudit will complain about security issues, to disable it use the DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES knob.

Also, no guarantees it will build on FreeBSD 7 ...

[Weaseal]

Have you tried using 'portdowngrade'? This itself is in ports.