Help - Update Firefox for RHEL/Fedora

daddy.torres · 03-22-2014, 04:28 PM

Friends,

I just installed Lovelock on VMware 5.2. This version comes with an outdated Firefox browser. I am attempting to download and install the latest update for Firefox and I would like to do it from the command line.

All help is greatly appreciated.

Again, thanks.

-DT, Newb

redd9 · 03-22-2014, 05:58 PM

I'm not really clear on wht lovelock is, but try

Code:

sudo yum update firefox

or

Code:

sudo yum update

to update everything.

RockDoctor · 03-22-2014, 06:17 PM

Fedora 15 (Lovelock) is very outdated - like about 2.5 years beyond end of life. Installing the current release of Fedora (F20) will get a complete set of updated applications, not just Firefox.

daddy.torres · 03-22-2014, 06:44 PM

Wow. Didn't realize how outdated Lovelock is. Thanks for the tip.

Redd9, thanks for your help as well.

John VV · 03-22-2014, 06:47 PM

you might not be able to even run firefox 28

the long dead fedora 15 had
firefox-4.0.1-1.fc15.i686.rpm

install the current Fedora 20

daddy.torres · 03-22-2014, 11:27 PM

I eventually installed firefox 12. But then I finished downloading Fedora 20. Hell yeah! Playing around with it now.

RockDoctor · 03-24-2014, 06:59 AM

Comment re Firefox on Fedora:
Firefox depends on xulrunner, and my experience has been that a mismatch between versions usually means firefox will not function properly. The latest version of firefox in the Fedora repos is firefox-28.0-3; the latest version of xulrunner is xulrunner-27.0-1. The usual behavior was observed, so I downgraded to firefox-27.0.1-2 and all is well again.