Last revision : March 29th, 2007
Firefox 2.0 has been out for quite some time now.
You can install an updated version of Firefox quite easily in Debian or Ubuntu. Here is how.
First, download your Firefox version of choice. We'll use Firefox 2.0 (2.0.0.3 in fact) for this tutorial :wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.3/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.0.3.tar.gz
You can also use the latest Seamonkey if you want a full featured Internet suite (browser and email client).
Once you have Firefox, choose a place to install it. I'll install it in ~/apps/firefox/ :mkdir -p ~/apps/
which is in fact /home/<your_user>/apps/.
Then put Firefox in that directory :tar zxf firefox-2.0.0.3.tar.gz ~/apps/
Once uncompressed, we need to configure the plugins.
Delete the default (empty) Firefox 2.0 plugins directory :cd ~/apps/firefox/
rm -r plugins
Then make a link from your old browser plugins directory :ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
Of course, this new Firefox will use any plugins already present in ~/.mozilla/plugins/.
That's it, the executable for the new Firefox is /home/<your_user>/apps/firefox/firefox, so make a shortcut for it and start using it.
Any plugins installed with your old browser will work just as well in Firefox 2.0. If the Flash and Java plugins weren't already installed, take a look at these tutorials, on Flash 9 and Java.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Debian HOW-TO : Update Firefox
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5 comments:
I tried it before itself with all symlinks set on to firefox's plugins dir,but firefox locally installed will show big/ugly fonts and misspelled local languages in Debian/Ubuntu.In Debian,Iceweasel(fork of ff2) is rendering all pages correctly!is there any hack that will make firefox t have font setup correctly
I tried to use the instructions to upgrade the FF 1.5.0.8 bundled with Ubuntu 6.06 to FF 2.0, which I am used to using with Windows, with the following result :
mkdir -p ~apps
mhenriday@mhenriday-desktop:~$ tar zxf firefox-2.0.tar.gz ~/apps/
tar: /home/mhenriday/apps: Not found in the archive
But under '/mhenriday/', I did find a folder called 'apps'
Being an utter novice in Unix/Linux systems, I interpreted all this to mean that the commands had not succeeded in placing 'firefox-2.0.tar.gz' in the right folder. I had, however, no difficulty in drawing 'firefox-2.0.tar.gz' to '/home/mhenriday/apps/'. But how to open the zipped folder ? I right-clicked on it and choose the alternative 'Extract with the archive manager' which produced a new folder, 'Firefox', containing 10 folders and 27 files, but nothing I could run to install FF 2.0. Where do I go from here ? Do I have to reinstall Windows Xp to get FF 2.0 ?...
Henri
Hi Henry,
Just make sure you follow the exact instructions. For example, when you refer to
mkdir -p ~apps
it is a mistake. The real command (refer to the tutorial is) :
mkdir -p ~/apps
Make sure you follow the exact commands.
Installing firefox is just one command really :
tar zxf firefox-2.0.tar.gz ~/apps/
Then you just link the existing plugins folder to Firefox 2.0.
I understand that this sounds a bit confusing, and I really do try to explain myself clearly.
There may be an easier way explained here by aysiu :
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/firefox
Finally, if you wish to learn more about the BASH SHELL (command line), try this tutorial :
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
Good luck !
Salut! j'ai survolé ton blog linuxien et ça m'a l'air pas mal technique et approfondis. En tk bon succès!
plein d'infos avancées et de tutoriels de pros. Bonne continuation pour ton blog Hugues!
Julien
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