RHEL5 ?
5 point what
5.0,5.1,5.2 ---- to -- 5.9
that prebuilt firefox is ment to go into it's own folder ( as per above)
BUT
the older rhel5 series has firefox 3.6 built into the system
/usr/bin/firefox
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/lib/browser-plugins
-- or --
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
you need to manually configure the os to use the prebuilt FF 21
Warning:
uninstall firefox using yum FIRST
Code:
su -
yum remove firefox
for example if you place the ff12 "firefox" folder in /opt
you need to set the $PATH to this folder
system wide this is set in "/etc/profile"
there will be a section near the top that looks like this
Code:
pathmunge () {
case ":${PATH}:" in
*:"$1":*)
;;
*)
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
esac
}
add the location to it
Code:
pathmunge () {
case ":${PATH}:" in
*:"$1":*)
;;
*)
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:/opt/firefox:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
esac
}
then reboot
you might also need to manually link the plugins from
/usr/lib/browser-plugins
-- or --
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
to /opt/firefox/plugins
For the inexperienced it is A LOT easier to use the rpmforge repo that was provided above in post #4
