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Firefox6.0 has been released! Installation instructions for Linux

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

Mozilla is currently on schedule to release Firefox 6 on August 16th but it looks like the final version has already been signed off and is unofficially available on firefox iconMozilla’s servers.

 

Installation in Linux:

1- Download :

For 32 bit use this command to download firefox6.0

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/6.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-6.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit:

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/6.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-6.0.tar.bz2

 2- Now extract and move the folder to /opt

tar xvjf firefox-6.0.tar.bz2
sudo cp -r firefox/ /opt/firefox
sudo rm firefox-6.0.tar.bz2
sudo rm -r firefox/

 

3- Make a  Symbolic  Link

“Backup” the old Firefox launcher:

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-old

Create a symbolic link pointing to the new Firefox version:

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox6 /usr/bin/firefox

Now  you  can  start the  firefox

 

 

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  • http://n/a danrgmc

    This didn’t work. After going through this process I wasn’t able to start either the old or or the new version. I had to reinstall firefox 5 from synaptic.

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I tried it and it works with a regular zip file, but if you password-protect the .zip file it does NOT work.

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After install as above, run shell script /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica.sh manually and note lib errors still occur. I had the x64 motif loaded but had to manually install the x86 too. Got that from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libXm.so.4 Even after that, I still had to do a “yum install alsa-lib.i686 alsa-lib.x86_64″ to resolve any additional libasound.so.2 errors. Once those two lib issues were resolved, Citix Web Interface launched apps fine by telling browser to open launch.ica using /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica.sh. Good luck Ernesto!

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