I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some concerns that I would like some input on: 1) If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox. Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway? 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side? 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by side? If not, how do I correct it?
Thank you.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/how_much_memory_will_i_need_for_my_...
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some concerns that I would like some input on:
- If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox.
Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway? 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side? 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by side? If not, how do I correct it?
I have installed Firefox 1.5 while keeping the FC stuff there. What I did was to download the tarball from www.getfirefox.com into /usr/local so that the executable is /usr/local/firefox/firefox. Then I edit /etc/profile, putting /usr/local/firefox into the PATH environment variable. The way I do it is to add this line:
PATH="/usr/local/firefox:$PATH"
directly above the line that reads:
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
When anyone logs in, Firefox 1.5 is ahead of everything else in their search path.
This is not elegant, but it does work pretty well.
There are other ways of doing it, but this quick-n-dirty hack works OK for me.
TC
On 12/27/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some concerns that I would like some input on:
- If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox.
Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway? 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side? 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by side? If not, how do I correct it?
I have installed Firefox 1.5 while keeping the FC stuff there. What I did was to download the tarball from www.getfirefox.com into /usr/local so that the executable is /usr/local/firefox/firefox. Then I edit /etc/profile, putting /usr/local/firefox into the PATH environment variable. The way I do it is to add this line:
PATH="/usr/local/firefox:$PATH"
directly above the line that reads:
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
When anyone logs in, Firefox 1.5 is ahead of everything else in their search path.
This is not elegant, but it does work pretty well.
There are other ways of doing it, but this quick-n-dirty hack works OK for me.
TC
This is not working for me. I took the line back out. How can I make it so that when the command "firefox" is given at the command line, it opens 1.5 and not 1.0.7? I don't want to simply change the file associations in KDE.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_moni... (
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 12/27/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some concerns that I would like some input on:
- If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox.
Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway? 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side? 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by side? If not, how do I correct it?
I have installed Firefox 1.5 while keeping the FC stuff there. What I did was to download the tarball from www.getfirefox.com into /usr/local so that the executable is /usr/local/firefox/firefox. Then I edit /etc/profile, putting /usr/local/firefox into the PATH environment variable. The way I do it is to add this line:
PATH="/usr/local/firefox:$PATH"
directly above the line that reads:
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
When anyone logs in, Firefox 1.5 is ahead of everything else in their search path.
This is not elegant, but it does work pretty well.
There are other ways of doing it, but this quick-n-dirty hack works OK for me.
TC
This is not working for me. I took the line back out. How can I make it so that when the command "firefox" is given at the command line, it opens 1.5 and not 1.0.7? I don't want to simply change the file associations in KDE.
Did you log out and log back in after changing /etc/profile? This method has worked for me for years.
TC
On 12/30/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
Did you log out and log back in after changing /etc/profile? This method has worked for me for years.
TC
I went so far as to reboot the machine.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/why_are_internet_greeting_card... |
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 12/30/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
Did you log out and log back in after changing /etc/profile? This method has worked for me for years.
TC
I went so far as to reboot the machine.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/why_are_internet_greeting_card... |
With Thomas' change back in place, log out, log in, and then see what the "whereis" command tells you about where Firefox is being found by typing: whereis firefox
The command: which firefox command can be informative sometimes, as well. Look to see if your personal ".profile" or ".bash_profile" contains a path that leads to the alternate (older) firefox executable.
On 12/31/05, Richard England rengland@europa.com wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 12/30/05, Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
Did you log out and log back in after changing /etc/profile? This method has worked for me for years.
TC
I went so far as to reboot the machine.
Dotan Cohen
With Thomas' change back in place, log out, log in, and then see what the "whereis" command tells you about where Firefox is being found by typing: whereis firefox
The command: which firefox command can be informative sometimes, as well. Look to see if your personal ".profile" or ".bash_profile" contains a path that leads to the alternate (older) firefox executable.
Thanks, but this is no longer nessacary. After I changed the syslink it worked great. And to me, this seems to be the 'proper' method. All new users on the machine will get 1.5 when they command 'firefox'- no hacks.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_moni... &^
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Thanks, but this is no longer nessacary. After I changed the syslink it worked great. And to me, this seems to be the 'proper' method. All new users on the machine will get 1.5 when they command 'firefox'- no hacks.
And when next you upgrade firefox? What then?
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_moni... &^
On 1/1/06, John Summerfied debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Thanks, but this is no longer nessacary. After I changed the syslink it worked great. And to me, this seems to be the 'proper' method. All new users on the machine will get 1.5 when they command 'firefox'- no hacks.
And when next you upgrade firefox? What then? Cheers John
Replace the syslink again. Unless you could recommend another method that would call 1.5 when the command "firefox" is given (for all users) and leave 1.0.7 intact.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_can_i_be_safe_online.html _+
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I want to install Firefox 1.5 but Yum does not provide it. So I looked for rpms on the net and found a few for Fedora, but none are in Hebrew. Before I install from the oficial tarball, I have some concerns that I would like some input on:
- If I install from the tarball, yum will no longer update Firefox.
Can I tell yum to maintain it anyway? 2) I did locate and found that most ff files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/ . Can I just unpack the new 1.5 tarball in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/ and have them live side by side? 3) I currently can type the command "firefox" in the command line to start Firefox. Will this change to start 1.5 if I install them side by side? If not, how do I correct it?
Hi Dotan;
First off I am sorry for posting this explanation to different threads but I noticed several people strugling with the same issue, this is how to build the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 RPMs
You can build your own RPM for Firefox and Thunderbird and it will overwrite the older version. Also I find it useful to use
yum localinstall "path to the rpm"
The benefit of using yum localinstall is if there is a missing dependency then it will automatically download it.
Here is the info on building Firefox and Thunderbird RPM's
Do this first: http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/
Another method to create rpmbuild directory in your home directory is using fedora-rpmdevtools Thanks to Mr. Warren Togami's suggestion.
1) Install fedora-rpmdevtools binary RPM from Fedora Extras for your Fedora release. $ sudo yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
2) As a non-root user, run fedora-buildrpmtree to create rpmbuild directory. $ fedora-buildrpmtree
Do these next:
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/
It has worked perfectly for me following the steps on those web sites.