I have the source code in tar.bz2 but when I tried these instructions on http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-firefox-4-0-tar-bz2-in-linux/ it's just opening Firefox 4 (this instruction is to install firefox 4 but I changed 4 to 3.6.16).
Thanks.
I have the source code in tar.bz2 but when I tried these instructions on http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-firefox-4-0-tar-bz2-in-linux/ it's just opening Firefox 4 (this instruction is to install firefox 4 but I changed 4 to 3.6.16).
Thanks.
You probably meant 3.6.x, 3.6.17 is the latest version in the 3.6 branch.
Extract the compressed tarball by executing:
tar xjf firefox-3.6.17.tar.bz2 -C ~
The directory ~/firefox
will be created. Note that the Cyberciti guide extracts it to /opt
, which requires root permissions but breaks the Firefox updater.
To run firefox now, issue:
~/firefox/firefox
Only your account will be able to run Firefox 3.6.17 (since it's now installed in your Home directory). And if you haven't removed Firefox 4, then the latest latest version will be in the system and available to all users, including you.
firefox
, create the dir ~/bin
and make a symlink to your Fx36: ln -s ~/firefox/firefox ~/bin/firefox
. You need to re-login for the changes take effect.
May 6, 2011 at 19:16