Install the Firefox beta as you normally would (with apt-get
or dpkg
), then do the following steps to install Minefield and create a custom shortcut for it (minefield
):
Download the .tar.bz2
file from the Firefox Nightly Builds site. Extract the files into a directory of your choice (I'll just use /opt
):
sudo tar xvfj firefox-4.0b9pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 -C /opt
Minefield should now be installed in /opt/firefox
. Now, let's create a custom command for it:
sudo tee /usr/bin/minefield <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
/opt/firefox/firefox "\$@"
EOF
...and make the script executable:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/minefield
You should now be able to run the command minefield
to start Minefield.
Uninstallation:
If you want to uninstall Minefield (when it was installed using the above method), simply do the following:
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox /usr/bin/minefield
Regarding updates:
I am not quite sure, but I think Minefield has an auto-update feature (it at least have an updater program, which should be located at /opt/firefox/updater
), so you shouldn't have to worry too much about it.