Installing Firefox 1.5

[Stratos Laspas]

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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 2/9/06, Stratos Laspas <stratos at laspas.gr> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> While this is certainly a great script, it does not install Firefox
> 1.5- it installs version 1.0.7 . I can't seem to find an up to date
> page with the version numbers of the programs it installs.
> 
> Dotan
> http://technology-sleuth.com/short_answer/how_can_i_be_safe_online.html
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> 

Actually it does (from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563
install options):

39*) Installs Firefox 1.5.0.1 and its plugins(themes and extensions are
not retained, bookmarks need to be copied from backup folder)

Regards,

Stratos
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