[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Updated Linux instructions

[Jason Etheridge]

>>     I've tried these instructions in Fedora 15 and Mint 11 with revised
>>     version numbers, where applicable, but haven't been able to get them
>>     to work. I'm planning to deploy a few staff machines soon running
>>     Mint 11, and it would be nice to have the client running natively
>>     rather than in Wine.<br>
>
> The instructions rely on a compatible version of xulrunner being
> available on your Linux client, but I can say that recent versions
> of XULRunner - as packaged with recent distros due to Firefox 6 / 7 /
> etc updates - don't work with the staff client. Thus I downloaded
> the Linux i686 XULRunner 1.9.2.17 tarball from
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.2.17/runtimes/
> , untar it, and invoke the xulrunner binary directly from that, with
> great success - at least for my testing and development purposes.

The Make targets have changed as well.  See:
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mozilla-devel:building_the_staff_client

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