Installing Firefox 1.5

[Art Alexion]

I did this and it is working fine.  I installed to /opt/firefox and
created a symlink to /opt/firefox/firefox in /usr/local/bin.  I prefer
the /opt branch for self-contained programs, and /usr/local for programs
that spread their installations over the lib, share, etc. branches.

Among the things that make this easy is that the the version of Firefox
in the breezy repositories is named mozilla-firefox, while the 1.5
version from mozilla.com is named simply firefox which prevents
conflicts.  The other nice thing is that 1.5 automatically imports all
of your user settings.

I am not sure if this is safe, so I can't really recommend it, but...

I initially extracted the .tar.gz to ~/temp/firefox, discovered that I
didn't have to "install" it, i.e. that the extraction created a self
contained working copy.  When I decided that I preferred it and that
there were no conflicts, I moved it

    sudo mv ~/temp/firefox /opt/
    cd /usr/local/bin
    sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox

If you use Thunderbird for  mail and want it to open http/https links in
1.5, use the Thunderbird extension about:config.

You can't remove the Ubuntu default version with apt-get remove as it
will break other apps that use its gecko engine.



Javier wrote:

>You can download the tar.gz file from firefox's web site. Then
>decompress it to a local folder (for example /urs/local/). You will
>need to install libstdc++5 (it's in the repo).
>
>On 2/9/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Just installed Kubuntu 5.10 but I've used Fedora for about a year. I
>>want to install Firefox 1.5 but get-apt has only 1.0.7. Is there an
>>alternative to downloading the rpm from getfirefox.com? For that
>>matter, how are rpm's in debian based systems? Should I get used to
>>something else?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for assistance.
>>
>>    
>>


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