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=Software Installation=
Since I have already installed the latest version of Ubuntu on my notebook, I would will only require a few more packages before I can execute my first build. My first step was to install any of the missing build prerequisites on the developer website on to my machine.
Using the Synaptic Install Wizard, I located and downloaded each package listed on the Mozilla website ([http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Linux_Build_Prerequisites Linux Build Prerequisites]). The following packages were installed:
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My next step was required me to download the most recent version of the Mozilla source code from the cvs repository. To accomplish this task, I first need to create a directory to hold all my cvs repositories. Finally, i need I needed to checkout the latest browser version from the Mozilla trunk and build it. I used the following commands to complete these tasks.
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Now that we I have a link to the Mozilla repository, I can now specify which code segment to download using the MOZ_CO_PROJECT parameter. Since we’re I am only building Firefox, we can I am able to specify the keyword ‘browser’ for the MOZ_CO_PROJECT parameter, which will allow me to download only the browser components.
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By accident, I missed the section that talks about discusses the build options configuration file. I then quickly moved to the Firefox build section and initiated the following command to build my newly downloaded browser source.
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