Good Day All:

Relative newbie here. Looking to install Firefox 3.5 on Fedora 9. Was able to upgrade Firefox to 3.011 with Yum with out issues. However, I cannot seem to get Firefox 3.5 installed. I've downloaded 3.5 for linux from Mozilla and extracted the contents but there aren't any instructions on what to do next. I also found an rpm but again no instructions on how to install.

Do I need to uninstall 3.011 first?
Should the install be done as root (via su)?
What is the standard procedure and where would I typically look for help on this subject?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Regards:

Dan

Hi Dan,

Using Fedora 11 here and only default repositories, I can only get Firefox 3.5 not the latest 3.5.1. Its for this reason that I never install Firefox/Thunderbird via yum. I always download the file from:

http://www.getfirefox.com

Just now I downloaded:

firefox-3.5.1.tar.bz2

then ran:

tar -jxvf firefox-3.5.1.tar.bz2

This will uncompress/untar the file into your current directory. Then run it by:

./firefox/firefox

This I do into my own home directory, so no I do not need to be root. If you install via

yum localinstall localfile.rpm
or
rpm -i localfile.rpm

then yes you will need to be root.

Just a general note, if I ever install any software from source or tar file I never install into any location that is controlled by a package manager, yum/apt...

Perhaps someone will post a Fedora core 9 repository that offers firefox 3.5.1. By far the easiest is to keep software installed/updated using yum, but you will not always get the latest version

Regards
Ian

Thanks Ian:

I was able to get Firefox 3.5.1 installed per your instructions. Now I just have to figure out how to update to the appropriate command everywhere (and I suppose the icons too).

Dan

you DO KNOW that fedora 9 is PAST IT'S END OF LIFE and there will NEVER be any updates to it EVER !

there is now NO WAY to keep fedora 9 "up to date" seeing as there will never be any more updates to it .
only fedora 10 and 11 are supported.

Remi Collet is maintaining a mozilla repository for outdated fedoras.

look at http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en