[2aaa7e5] | 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Introduction to mozilla</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <screen>
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| 5 | Download location (HTTP): <ulink url="&mozilla-download-http;"/>
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| 6 | Download location (FTP): <ulink url="&mozilla-download-ftp;"/>
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| 7 | Version used: &mozilla-version;
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| 8 | Package size: &mozilla-size;
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| 9 | Estimated Disk space required: &mozilla-buildsize;
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| 10 | Estimated Build time: &mozilla-buildtime;
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| 11 | Estimated Install size: &mozilla-installsize;</screen>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>Mozilla is a browser suite, the opensource sibling of
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| 14 | Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail client and an IRC client. A
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| 15 | calendar component is also being built but it is not yet integrated into the
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| 16 | stable mozilla releases.</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <screen>mozilla depends on:
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[1c6182e] | 19 | <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
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| 20 | <xref linkend="xfree86"/>,
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| 21 | <xref linkend="zip"/>,
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| 22 | <xref linkend="GLib2"/>,
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| 23 | <xref linkend="GTK2"/>,
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| 24 | <xref linkend="libIDL"/>,
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| 25 | <xref linkend="lcms"/>,
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| 26 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
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| 27 | <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
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| 28 | <xref linkend="libpng"/>.
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| 29 | <xref linkend="which"/></screen>
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[2aaa7e5] | 30 |
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[1c6182e] | 31 | <para>Download the patch for various fixes to the build from
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| 32 | <userinput><ulink url="&hfile-root;"/></userinput>. The patches begin with
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| 33 | <userinput>mozilla-&mozilla-version;</userinput></para>
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[2aaa7e5] | 34 |
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[d986b57] | 35 | <para>Note that the mozdev spellchecker instructions have been removed since the API
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| 36 | for spellchecker was changed and it is currently broken.</para>
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| 37 | <!--
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[1c6182e] | 38 | <para>Download the spellchecker (a Mozdev project).
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| 39 | <screen><ulink url="&hfile-root;/mozilla-&mozilla-version;-spellchecker.tar.bz2"/></screen>
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[2aaa7e5] | 40 | </para>
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[d986b57] | 41 | -->
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[2aaa7e5] | 42 |
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| 43 | <para>If you have difficulties in building mozilla, check out the mozilla
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[41ece9f] | 44 | hint for detailed information at <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>.
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[1c6182e] | 45 | The instructions
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[2aaa7e5] | 46 | that follow install the entire suite. To select specific components, refer
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[2b36b6b] | 47 | to the hint.</para>
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[2aaa7e5] | 48 |
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| 49 | </sect2>
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