Thursday, October 27, 2011

Firefox 8 on Debian Squeeze


To install firefox 8 on Debian, download from mozilla web page. Then:

#su

enter your password then:

# apt-get remove iceweasel

Go to directory of the download firefox file and then

# mv firefox-8.0.0.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/; cd /usr/lib/; tar -jxvf firefox-8.0.0.tar.bz2; ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

change the name according to the version downloaded

#rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox/plugins; ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

to create a icon:

Second mouse click on "Applications" under the internet menu add item.
command: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

to run firefox as root to install updates:

#chown -R /usr/lib/firefox

Enjoy ;)