• Registered: 2011-02-08
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Topic: Firefox Beta 10 debian install script

I am new to crunchbang and was searching for a simple way to install the new firefox beta. I found a website that has a really simple script that you can download that does the work for you and wanted to share it with everyone. Great distro btw! smile
http://geekinthefamily.com/2011/01/inst … r-distros/

  • From: turkey-izmir
  • Registered: 2010-02-01
  • Posts: 23

Re: Firefox Beta 10 debian install script

cool...

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Re: Firefox Beta 10 debian install script

I looked at the script. Here's the code for the 32-bit version.

#!/bin/sh
# Install Firefox 4.
# Get superuser priv.
sudo ping 127.0.0.1 -c 2 2> /dev/null
echo "Downloading Firefox 4"
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-4.0b10pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

# Attempt to install it.
echo "Attempting to install Firefox 4"
tar -xvjf firefox*.tar.bz2
sudo mv firefox /usr/local/firefox4
sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox4/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox4
echo "Firefox 4 is installed."

So what it does is download a nightly build of FF4 b10. Unpack, install and then symlink it so it is started with firefox4. That way you can keep it side by side with your old FF install. What you won't get this way is the updates. For that you'll need a FF4 repo instead.