Re: Firefox in Statler
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I'd suggest that you look for the post concerning apt-pinning here in the forums. That'll help you. It's a sticky post.
Re: Firefox in Statler
here is some good commands for those like me who wanted to download right from website. Firefox is installed and working perfectly...
get the archive from the firefox website http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html NOTE: scroll until you see your language and then click the appropriate download link next to the penguin
once downloaded open a terminal and type
cd /home/YOUR USERNAME/downloadsThen type or copy and paste the following
sudo mv firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/and then
cd /usr/lib/then this
sudo tar -jxvf firefox-6.0.tar.bz2and lastly the following
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxNOTE: if your using the root terminal you will not need to use the sudo command.
this method worked rather well on both the openbox and xfce versions of #!. currently its installed as the main broswer on my system which is using the XFCE version.
one thing to mention if you would like firefox to be your primary browser (in the menu and as the icon if you are using the icons) you will have to set the file path under preferred applications which can be done by using the following.
/usr/bin/firefox "%s"after you set the it as preferred application your all set to go. or you can leave your previous browser as the preferred.
Last edited by cobaltwolfe (2011-08-23 02:37:50)
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Just IMO, I would recommend you put Firefox in /opt/ or /usr/local/bin/ as opposed to /usr/lib/.
Edit: BTW where did you even get those instructions? The step where you do:
sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2Does not make sense. 1. You already extracted the archive. 2. 3.0.5 is way old.
Edit 2: Ignore my first edit. I see you moved the archive to the folder instead of just extracting directly.
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Do I have to remove Iceweasel first? Also, it should say firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 not 3.0.5
Firefox installed, but I can't seem to launch it.
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@nabilalk - whose instructions did you use? For cobaltwolfe's steps, did you try running /usr/bin/firefox?
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anonymous wrote:
@nabilalk - whose instructions did you use? For cobaltwolfe's steps, did you try running /usr/bin/firefox?
I used cobaltwolfe and launching Firefox from there launches Iceweasel
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Try this:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxThen rerun firefox.
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Sorry i thought i had updated to commands to show the proper firefox. i will change it. this was from chatting with a friend and it worked for me. i'll change the posting to match what i meant. this should work as its the method that i used and have had no issues what so ever.
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Re: Firefox in Statler
one thing you should remember is that i am using XFCE which updating the menu is going to be a little different from Openbox. I have yet to attempt updating the openbox menu in any aspect.
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anonymous wrote:
Try this:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxThen rerun firefox.
That worked :-)
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Just for anyone wondering: Iceweasel includes its own /usr/bin/firefox symlink, so you need to use ln's -f flag to overwrite that symlink.
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anonymous wrote:
Just for anyone wondering: Iceweasel includes its own /usr/bin/firefox symlink, so you need to use ln's -f flag to overwrite that symlink.
this is actually good to know. the instructions i posted kind of assume that you have either removed or are not using iceweasel. When i did this I was using opera so for me using the command i posted it was fine. thank you for lettting us know! now for the stupid question.
so instead of using mv to move the file first you could use
sudo tar -jxvf firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/instead and get the same result? I.E the file will both move and unzip itself? (or use whatever file-path you desire)
I'm curious about this as the easier we can make it for people the better.
Last edited by cobaltwolfe (2011-08-23 16:19:02)
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Re: Firefox in Statler
I've never had any problems using the Ubuntuzilla repos (sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/). I seem to get available updates within days of the mainstream release.
Works perfectly well on Statler.