Installing Firefox 1.5 in SUSE 9.1

IndianaTux · 01-19-2006, 07:06 PM

I'm trying to install Firefox 1.5 on SUSE 9.1. Here's what I have done so far: I have downloaded and untarred the tarball. I tried ./config, clicking the Firefox shell script, make install, etc. I then tried to install via YaST, but can't find any Firefox installations in any of my repositories. Can someone give me a clue as to what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks.

EclipseAgent · 01-19-2006, 08:06 PM

You can download and replace what is in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib with what you download from getfirefox.com

IndianaTux · 01-19-2006, 09:25 PM

I don't have a MozillaFirefox folder in /opt. The only browser I currently have is Konqueror

EclipseAgent · 01-20-2006, 12:56 AM

Ok, you can then just download it, put the folder there, and add a ln to the bin folder for Firefox, or you can just put a shortcut on your desktop that points to

/opt/firefoxfoldername/firefox

IndianaTux · 01-20-2006, 07:34 AM

That was easy enough.

Thanks for the info!

VicRic · 04-08-2007, 07:17 PM

Wow, how time flies.

I'm using SUSE 10.0 and I want to upgrade Firefox 1.5.0.10 --the one that came by default w/ the system-- to the latest Firefox 2.0.0.3.

Sorry for the basic questions but I want to do this right

- I'm logged-in as 'root' right now, if I copy the gz file to the directory "/opt/MozillaFirefox/lib" and proceed to untar it there then the latest Firefox 2.0 will be available and executable to ALL USERS, not only to 'root', right ?

Awaiting reply.

Thx