glfs/xsoft/graphweb/mozilla/mozilla-intro.xml
Tushar Teredesai 1c6182ecbd updated to mozilla 1.2.1
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<sect2>
<title>Introduction to mozilla</title>
<screen>
Download location (HTTP): <ulink url="&mozilla-download-http;"/>
Download location (FTP): <ulink url="&mozilla-download-ftp;"/>
Version used: &mozilla-version;
Package size: &mozilla-size;
Estimated Disk space required: &mozilla-buildsize;
Estimated Build time: &mozilla-buildtime;
Estimated Install size: &mozilla-installsize;</screen>
<para>Mozilla is a browser suite, the opensource sibling of
Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail client and an IRC client. A
calendar component is also being built but it is not yet integrated into the
stable mozilla releases.</para>
<screen>mozilla depends on:
<xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
<xref linkend="xfree86"/>,
<xref linkend="zip"/>,
<xref linkend="GLib2"/>,
<xref linkend="GTK2"/>,
<xref linkend="libIDL"/>,
<xref linkend="lcms"/>,
<xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
<xref linkend="libmng"/>,
<xref linkend="libpng"/>.
<xref linkend="which"/></screen>
<para>Download the patch for various fixes to the build from
<userinput><ulink url="&hfile-root;"/></userinput>. The patches begin with
<userinput>mozilla-&mozilla-version;</userinput></para>
<para>Download the spellchecker (a Mozdev project).
<screen><ulink url="&hfile-root;/mozilla-&mozilla-version;-spellchecker.tar.bz2"/></screen>
</para>
<para>If you have difficulties in building mozilla, check out the mozilla
hint for detailed information at <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/"/>.
The instructions
that follow install the entire suite. To select specific components, refer
to the hint.</para>
</sect2>