HowTo: Install firefox-13.0.tar.bz2 in Linux
I‘ve downloaded Firefox version 13.0 from mozilla server. The name of file is firefox-13.0.tar.bz2. How do I install firefox-13.0.tar.bz2 in any Linux distribution?
Step #1: Download Firefox 13
Download Firefox version 13 from the Firefox download page to your /tmp directory. First, close Firefox if it’s running. Open a command line-terminal and go to your /tmp directory, enter:
$ cd /tmp
If you’ve not saved or downloaded Firefox 13, use the wget command as follows:
$ wget 'http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/13.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-13.0.tar.bz2'OR, you can download 64 bit version:
$ wget 'http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/13.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-13.0.tar.bz2'
Sample outputs:
--2012-06-06 17:16:28-- http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/13.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-13.0.tar.bz2 Resolving ftp.jaist.ac.jp... 150.65.7.130, 2001:200:141:feed::feed Connecting to ftp.jaist.ac.jp|150.65.7.130|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 19807142 (19M) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: `firefox-13.0.tar.bz2' 100%[==========================================================>] 1,98,07,142 86.9K/s in 2m 51s
Step #2: Extract and Install firefox-13.0.tar.bz2 Tar Ball
To extract the contents of the downloaded file called firefox-13.0.tar.bz2 and install into /opt directory, enter:
$ tar -jxvf firefox-13.0.tar.bz2 -C /opt
Sample outputs:
firefox/ firefox/libnssdbm3.so firefox/updater.ini firefox/icons/ firefox/icons/updater.png firefox/icons/mozicon128.png firefox/components/ firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so firefox/components/binary.manifest firefox/components/libmozgnome.so firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so firefox/components/libdbusservice.so firefox/searchplugins/ firefox/searchplugins/wikipedia.xml firefox/searchplugins/eBay.xml .... ... firefox/libssl3.so firefox/crashreporter.ini firefox/libmozalloc.so firefox/libmozsqlite3.so firefox/precomplete
If you can not install Firefox 13 in /opt directory, due to permission issues, use the following command to install FF13 in your own home directory:
$ mkdir ~/firfox13
$ tar jxvf firefox-*.tar.bz2 -C ~/firfox13
Step #3: Start Firefox 13 under Linux
First, make sure you backup ~/.mozilla/ directory, enter:
$ mkdir ~/backups
$ cp -avr ~/.mozilla/ ~/backups
To start Firefox, type the firefox command script in the firefox directory:
$ /opt/firefox/firefox
OR
$ ~/firefox13/firefox
Sample outputs:
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