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Installation Instructions for Mozilla Ports

This document outlines the system requirements, compatibility information and installation instructions for Mozilla 1.8a6

OpenVMS

  • OpenVMS Beta V7.1 or higher
  • DECwindows MOTIF V1.2-4 or higher
  • Compaq TCP/IP Services Version 5.0 for OpenVMS or higher, MultiNet V4.3A or higher, or TCPware V5.4-3 or higher.
  • 65 MB of free hard disk space

    See the Mozilla for OpenVMS Installation Guide and Release Notes at www.openvms.compaq.com for more information.

Solaris

  • Solaris requires the installation of the following patches...
    Solaris Patches/SPARC
    2.7
    • 106950-22 - "SunOS 5.7: linker patch"
    • 106327-17 - "32-Bit Shared library patch for C++"
    • 106300-18 - "64-Bit Shared library patch for C++"
    • 108376-42 - "OpenWindows 3.6.1: Xsun Patch"
    • 107650-08 - "OpenWindows 3.6.1 X11R6.4 Xprint Extension Patch"
    • 107636-09 - "SunOS 5.7: X Input & Output Method patch"
    • 112689-02 - "SunOS 5.7: UTF-8 locale ICONV patch"
    or download and install the Recommended&Security patch cluster which includes all the patches listed above.
    2.8
    • 109147-09 - "SunOS 5.8: linker patch"
    • 108434-02 - "32-Bit Shared library patch for C++"
    • 108435-02 - "64-Bit Shared library patch for C++"
    • 108773-17 - "SunOS 5.8: IIIM and X Input & Output Method patch"
    • 108652-65 - "X11 6.5.1: Xsun patch"
    or download and install the Recommended&Security patch cluster which includes all the patches listed above.
    2.9
    • 112963-05 - "SunOS 5.9: linker patch"
    • 111711-03 - "32-Bit Shared library patch for C++"
    • 111712-03 - "64-Bit Shared library patch for C++"
    • 112661-04 - "SunOS 5.9: IIIM and X Input & Output Method patch"
    • 112785-12 - "X11 6.6.1: Xsun patch"
    or download and install the Recommended&Security patch cluster which includes all the patches listed above.
    ... from sunsolve.sun.com for Mozilla to run. (Bug 88205)
  • 65 MB of free hard disk space
  • 128 MB of RAM
  • Requires Xprint to be installed for printing. xprint.mozdev.org provides the GISWxprint (or GISWxprintglue) package as drop-in way for installation.
  • Requires GTK+ and glib libraries (libraries must be compiled with Sun Workshop/Forte. GTK+/glib compiled with gcc are incompatible with Mozilla binaries build with Sun Workshop/Forte, GTK+/glib libraries compiled with Sun Workshop/Forte are compatible to binaries compiled with both Sun Workshop and gcc. (Bug 136144, bug 141415, bug 186534 and many others)

AIX

  • AIX 4.3.3 or higher
  • Requires gtk+, glib, libiconv & gettext (compatible versions can be found at IBM's website)

HP-UX

IRIX

When using a window manager from the twm family without the DecorateTransients option, pop-up windows such as Find, Save and Preferences will not function. To work around, set the DecorateTransients option in the window manager's rc file. (Bug 78928)

OS/2

  • This release requires updated C runtime DLLs (libc-0.5.1) in order to run. By default the installation routine places them in \OS2\DLL on your bootdrive, but you can put them in the same directory as Mozilla's executable, or somewhere else in your LIBPATH. The Mozilla installer will not install the C runtime DLLs for you but requires them to run.
  • Minimum hardware requirements
    • Pentium class processor
    • 64 MiB RAM plus 64 MiB free swap space
    • 35 MiB free harddisk space for installation
      plus storage space for disk cache and mail
  • Recommended hardware for acceptable performance
    • 500 MHz processor
    • 256 MiB RAM plus 64 MiB free swap space
      Note: Mozilla's performance and stability increases the more physical RAM is available. Especially for long browsing and IRC sessions 512 MiB of memory is recommended.
  • Software requirements
    • Installation on a file system supporting long file names
      (i.e. HPFS or JFS but not FAT)
    • OS/2 Warp 4 with Fixpack 15 or later
    • MPTS version 5.3
    • TCP/IP version 4.1
    • INETVER: SOCKETS.SYS=5.3007, AFOS2.SYS=5.3001, AFINET.SYS=5.3006
      Note: Do not attempt to use MPTS & TCP/IP versions below these INETVER levels. Although Mozilla may seem to start and run normally with older stacks, some features Mozilla needs are not implemented correctly in older MPTS versions, which may result in crashes and data loss.
    • Convenience Pack 2 or eComStation 1.0 or later meet these requirements out of the box.
  • Installation Instructions
    To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, follow these steps:
    1. Click the "Installer" link on the site you're downloading Mozilla from to download the installer file to your machine. This file is typically called mozilla-os2-*-installer.exe where the "*" is replaced by the Mozilla version.
    2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file, make sure that the C library DLLs are copied to the same directory or installed in the LIBPATH, and double-click on the the Mozilla installer object to start the Setup program.
    3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setup program. The program automatically ends any running Mozilla sessions and creates a Mozilla folder on the Desktop. To start Mozilla the first time, again make sure that the C library DLLs are copied to the installation directory or installed in the LIBPATH and then double-click the Mozilla program object inside this folder.
    To install Mozilla by downloading the .zip file and installing manually, follow these steps:
    1. Click the "Zip" link on the site you're downloading Mozilla from to download the ZIP package to your machine. This file is typically called mozilla-os2-*.zip where the "*" is replaced by the Mozilla version.
    2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and unpack it using your favorite unzip tool.
    3. Keep in mind that the unzip process creates a directory "mozilla" below the location you point it to, i.e.
                   unzip mozilla-os2-1.7.5.zip -d c:\mozilla-1.7.5
      will unpack Mozilla into c:\mozilla-1.7.5\mozilla.
    4. Make sure that you are not unpacking over an old installation. This is known to cause problems.
    5. To start Mozilla, navigate to the directory you extracted Mozilla to, make sure that the C library DLLs are copied to the installation directory or installed in the LIBPATH, and then double-click the Mozilla.exe object.