Firefox Installation - Linux
April 14, 2008 – 6:07 pm- First, download the latest release to your home directory with your browser or download manager.
- Remove the firefox Installation directory, usually: /usr/lib/firefox-<version>. For example, if using Firefox 1.0 it would be: /usr/lib/firefox-1.0
- Next, extract the contents with an archiving utility such as tar.
$ tar zxf firefox-<version>.tar.gz
- Now you must select the installation directory. If you are the only user, the extracted files could stay where they are, but If this is a multi-user system, the firefox directory must be moved to a publicly accessible location such as /usr/local or /opt.
$ su <password> # mv firefox /usr/local # chown -R root:root /usr/local/firefox
- The installation is more or less complete, but it’s recommended that the firefox script be available somewhere in your path to avoid the inconvenience of having to enter the full path. This can be accomplished by creating a symbolic link in the relative ‘bin’ directory.
- For the personal installation:
$ mkdir bin
$ cd bin
$ ln -s ../firefox/firefox
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