Installing Firefox 1.5

Art Alexion art.alexion at verizon.net
Sun Feb 12 21:06:11 UTC 2006


Stratos Laspas wrote:

> 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
> >234
>
>
> 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)
>
If you just extract the tree from the tarball provided by mozilla.com,
it runs and copies bookmarks and other preferences from 1.0.x.
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