Installing Firefox Release Candidate 2 in Linux The directory into which the root account should install the downloaded bunzip2'd tarball is: /usr/lib. However, if you are running Firefox 3.0b5 because you have installed or are running the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Live CD (like me), then you need to fixup the execution links to firefox.
It turns out that if you issue the which command to find the location of the firefox executable, it goes like this:
$ which firefox -> /usr/bin/firefox
$ ls -lt /usr/bin/firefox -> firefox-3.0
$ ls -lt /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 -> ../lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox.sh
so, you need to remove the symbolic link in /usr/bin, i.e. firefox-3.0 and recreate it to the newly installed firefox-3.0rc2 directory.
Here are the steps I did to make it work:
0) mv /usr/lib/firefox /usr/lib/firefox.orig
1) As root, install ff-rc2 into /usr/lib/firefox, then renaming the just installed firefox directory to firefox-3.0rc2
1a) cp firefox-3.0rc2.tar.bz2 /usr/lib
1b) bunzip2 firefox-3.0rc2.tar.bz2
1c) tar -xf ./*.tar
1d) either: rm *.tar, or bzip2 *.tar and move it elsewhere
1e) mv firefox firefox-3.0rc2
2) cd /usr/bin/
3) rm firefox-3.0
4) ln -s ../lib/firefox-3.0rc2/firefox firefox-3.0
-- Tom
P.S. The release notes do not tell you where the so-called firefox directory is located into which to install the release candidate, but for future reference that is the one they are talking about (the technical writers of the Release Notes make the assumption that anyone downloading and running the release candidates are familiar with the directory they are talking about) - now, if we could get them to create the tarball from the root directory, i.e. /, then it would be perfectly clear which one they are talking about.
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Last edited by lotuseclat79 : 06-Jun-2008 09:40 AM.
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