Installing Firefox 1.5

[Stratos Laspas]

Hello there!

I just used the Automatix script to install anything I wanted:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563



Art Alexion wrote:
> 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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