{"id":5383,"date":"2011-12-08T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2012-02-03T05:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T13:54:04","slug":"installing-firefox-8-0-under-rhel-scientific-linux-and-centos-6-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":"Installing Firefox 8.0 under <abbr title=\"Red Hat Enterprise Linux\">RHEL<\/abbr>, Scientific Linux, and <abbr title=\"Community Enterprise Operating System\">CentOS<\/abbr> 6.x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center ; font-weight: bolder ;\">If you&#8217;re actually trying to install another version of Firefox, then click on <a href=\"?tag=firefox\">the <q>Firefox<\/q> tag<\/a>, as there may be an entry on that other version.<\/p> <p>Once again, I was distracted as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla<\/a> released a new version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/all.html\">Firefox<\/a>; this time, version 8.0.<var>x<\/var>.  <a href=\"?p=5084\">The installation method that worked for Firefox 7.0.1 under Scientific Linux 6.0 and 6.1<\/a> works, <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">mutatis mutandis<\/span>, for Firefox 8.0.1 under Scientific Linux 6.1, and therefore ought to work for Firefox 8.0.<var>x<\/var> under <abbr title=\"Red Hat Enterprise Linux\">RHEL<\/abbr> 6.x and under <abbr title=\"Community Enterprise Operating System\">CentOS<\/abbr> 6.x.<\/p> <p>So here are the steps that I recommend:<\/p> <ol><li>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/all.html\">the archive, firefox-8.0<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;<\/span>.<var>n<\/var><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#93;<\/span>.tar.bz2<\/a>.<\/li> <li>The tarball contains a directory, <code>firefox<\/code>, which should be dropped-in as a sub-directory of <em>something<\/em>.  If you want to <em>ponder<\/em> where, then study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathname.com\/fhs\/\">the <abbr title=\"Filesystem Hierarchy Standard\">FHS<\/abbr><\/a>.  As for me, <em>as root<\/em>, I put it in <code>\/opt<\/code>:<br \/><blockquote style=\"width: 100%; overflow: auto;\"><code>tar&nbsp;-xjvf&nbsp;firefox-8.0<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;<\/span>.<var>n<\/var><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#93;<\/span>.tar.bz2&nbsp;-C&nbsp;\/opt\/<\/code><\/blockquote> <p> (Omit that <q><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;<\/span>.<var>n<\/var><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#93;<\/span><\/q> if it isn&#8217;t in the name of the archive that you downloaded.  Replace it with the actual number from the name of the archive if such a number was included.)<\/p><\/li> <li>You&#8217;ll need a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/magazine\/012oct05\/features\/freedesktop\/\"><code>.desktop<\/code> file<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/all.html\">Firefox<\/a> (though you may already have one).  <em>As root<\/em>, edit\/create <code>\/usr\/share\/applications\/firefox.desktop<\/code>, ensuring that it reads<br \/><blockquote style=\"width: 100%; overflow: auto;\"><pre>[Desktop Entry]\r\nCategories=Application;Network;X-Red-Hat-Base;\r\nType=Application\r\nEncoding=UTF-8\r\nName=Firefox\r\nComment='WWW browser'\r\nExec='\/opt\/firefox\/firefox'\r\nIcon='\/opt\/firefox\/icons\/mozicon128.png'\r\nTerminal=false<\/pre><\/blockquote> <p>(If you didn't install in <code>\/opt<\/code>, or changed the name of the <code>firefox<\/code> directory, then you'll need to change the above accordingly.)<\/p><\/li> <li>Restart the <abbr title=\"graphic user interface\">GUI<\/abbr>, by logging out and back in or by restarting the system.<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re actually trying to install another version of Firefox, then click on the Firefox tag, as there may be an entry on that other version. 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