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I had to update my Firefox from ver 3 (i.e. the one that Ubuntu 10.04 ships with) and move it to Firefox 7.
So firefox gave a tar.gz file to extract the browser from. I ran sudo apt-get remove firefox, and then extracted the contents of the tarball to /opt/. But when i type the command firefox in the terminal it responds by saying firefox not installed. I am now using a launch shortcut to open firefox, but what i want to know is
How can I install the application so that I can open it from the terminal?

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The programs to be executed are searched in the directories defined in the environment variable PATH. You can see what you have defined using:

$ cat $PATH

Assuming you have the executable available in /opt/firefox/bin, then you can do:

$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/firefox/bin

To make permanent, you have to add that line it in your ~/.bashrc.

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  • How will I add this line to the ./bashrc ?. I have tried adding the complete line but it does not work. Nov 3, 2011 at 11:28
  • Note the file is .bashrc, not bashrc. It has to be in your home directory. For what it is worth, you have to omit the dollar sign.
    – gpoo
    Nov 12, 2011 at 6:04
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For a single user:

ln -s /path/to/firefox ~/bin/firefox

For all users:

sudo ln -s /path/to/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

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