Mini How-to: Installing Firefox 3.5 on Linux
Recently Firefox 3.5 was released. To simply install Firefox 3.5 on your linux box, without waiting for your favorite linux distro to offer it to you, download the Firefox version of the language you want and uncompress it on your home directory. That’s pretty easy, right? Well, let’s make it a little harder (and geekier) and a lot more fun, using the command-line. Fire up your console and get ready.
Before downloading anything, if you already have an installation of any other Firefox version it would be a good idea to backup your configuration files. If that’s your case use the following command. If it’s not just skip to the next one.
cp -r ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ~/firefox_backup
Now the magic: download and uncompress!
wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~
In the command above just replace “en-US” with your desired language (mine was really “es-MX”). Here you have a list of all the available languages.
Now you are ready to go. To run Firefox 3.5, move to your Home folder, then to the firefox directory and double click on the firefox file. You can also run Firefox from the command-line by typing:
~/firefox/firefox
Enjoy Firefox 3.5!
1 comment
Apparently Firefox 3.5 it's already on the Ubuntu repositories http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/firefox-3.5
— no-name-available Tue, 7 Jul 2009