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I was finally able to build <b>Firefox</b> successfully on <b>Ubuntu</b>, which took me about one night to do. This document will cover the build requirements such as hardware and software that I needed in order to build Firefox successfully. I will then discuss the steps that took me to fully complete the build and any problems that I encountered along the way. I will end it off with some useful resources that I found and used throughout the process of the build and then talk about my experience with my first open source build.
=Requirements=
*Libidl-dev
*Make
=The Build=
When I ran the build for the first time on Ubuntu I was bound to come in contact with some errors. info The first time I ran the build I encountered an error to do with missing packages. Once that got resolved I ran the build a second time and came across another error to do with another missing package. After getting the last package installed I ran the build a third time and finally got the build to complete without any more errors.
==Steps took to complete build==
==Problems Encountered==
Coming soon!
=Resources=
Here are some links that I found useful and helped me in the process of building Mozilla Firefox:
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Linux_Build_Prerequisites Linux Build Prerequisites]
*[http://whereswalden.com/mozilla/msvcfree/ Setting up an MSVC Toolkit Firefox/Thunderbird Build Environment]
*[http://Ubuntuforums.org Ubunutu Forums]
Also got some help from people in the <b>IRC Chat</b> in room <b>#Seneca</b>. The name of these individuals are as follows:
Mike Lau (mylau) [Helped with building Firefox on Ubuntu system]
Philip Vitorino (philly) [Helped with building Firefox on Ubuntu system]
Dave Humphrey (dave) [Helped with building Firefox on Windows XP Professional system]
Tom Aratyn(mystic) [Helped with building Firefox on Windows XP Professional system]
Thank you very much for taking the time to help me with the problems I faced when building Firefox.
=Conclusion=
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