howto: install firefox 2.0 on fedora 6?->

sharptech · 12-04-2006, 08:10 PM

Hey guys I dl'ed the tar file and unzipped it, however I do not see a config file or anything, and I did look at the install document and does not give any help.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

GATTACA · 12-04-2006, 10:35 PM

This site worked for me: http://www.fc64.org/index.php?fc=firefox

1) Get Firefox2 from: http://www.getfirefox.com/
2) Unpack the download
3) Move the resulting folder to its new home (for me it was /usr/local)
4) ln -s /usr/local/firefox2/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox2

To use firefox2.0 just type firefox2 at the command line (assuming /usr/local/bin is in your path).

Alternatively you can create an icon on the desktop to /usr/local/firefox2/firefox.

HTH

Jongi · 12-05-2006, 05:07 AM

yum -y --enablerepo=development update firefox

sharptech · 12-05-2006, 10:02 AM

Thanks a ton guys!

sharptech · 12-05-2006, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GATTACA

This site worked for me: http://www.fc64.org/index.php?fc=firefox

1) Get Firefox2 from: http://www.getfirefox.com/
2) Unpack the download
3) Move the resulting folder to its new home (for me it was /usr/local)
4) ln -s /usr/local/firefox2/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox2

To use firefox2.0 just type firefox2 at the command line (assuming /usr/local/bin is in your path).

Alternatively you can create an icon on the desktop to /usr/local/firefox2/firefox.

HTH

Alright I just tried this and when I type firefox2 command it says - bash: firefox2: command not found.

Now in this folder is a firefox file and I did run firefox - however it opened the old one.

Any suggestions?

sharptech · 12-05-2006, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jongi

yum -y --enablerepo=development update firefox

I went ahead and did this - however it was missing a dependency: mozilla >=1.7.13 is needed for package yelp is what it said.

sharptech · 12-05-2006, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharptech

Alright I just tried this and when I type firefox2 command it says - bash: firefox2: command not found.

Now in this folder is a firefox file and I did run firefox - however it opened the old one.

Any suggestions?

OK I did play around and now have this error

Cannot execute /usr/local/firefox/firefox2-bin.

Jongi · 12-05-2006, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharptech

I went ahead and did this - however it was missing a dependency: mozilla >=1.7.13 is needed for package yelp is what it said.

Do you already have a version of firefox installed?

sharptech · 12-05-2006, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jongi

Do you already have a version of firefox installed?

Yes I have 1.5 installed.

petespin27 · 12-05-2006, 09:56 PM

If you are following these directions from GATTACA:

Quote:

This site worked for me: http://www.fc64.org/index.php?fc=firefox

1) Get Firefox2 from: http://www.getfirefox.com/
2) Unpack the download
3) Move the resulting folder to its new home (for me it was /usr/local)
4) ln -s /usr/local/firefox2/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox2

To use firefox2.0 just type firefox2 at the command line (assuming /usr/local/bin is in your path).

In the folder /usr/local/firefox2/firefox, there are two files, firefox and firefox-bin. Rename them firefox2 and firefox2-bin. Then try /usr/local/bin/firefox2. That is what did it for me.

Jongi · 12-06-2006, 11:18 AM

sharptech, which repos do you have enabled?

sharptech · 12-06-2006, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petespin27

If you are following these directions from GATTACA:

In the folder /usr/local/firefox2/firefox, there are two files, firefox and firefox-bin. Rename them firefox2 and firefox2-bin. Then try /usr/local/bin/firefox2. That is what did it for me.

OK I did this and it says:

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

sharptech · 12-06-2006, 12:19 PM

I found that yum had not installed libstdc - so I found and installed it - so the renaming of the files was the trick.

Thanks guys for the help!

hspc · 03-08-2007, 02:55 PM

I had to uninstall Firefox 1.5 for this to work.
Try this if the mentioned way did not work for you.

VicRic · 04-11-2007, 01:46 AM

Thnx.

yum -y --enablerepo=development update firefox

worked perfectly for me in 2 machines running FC6.

Would the same command work fine in FC5 ?