topic title: Trying to install firefox
Posts: 15
jonesy
Joined: 11 Jul 2015
#1
Have been trying and failing to install Firefox. I downloaded firefox-39.0.tar.bz2 and tried to open it with xarchiver at /usr/binxarchiver i clicked on extract and that's it i'm lost. Could someone help me please.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#2
jonesy wrote:Have been trying and failing to install Firefox. I downloaded firefox-39.0.tar.bz2 and tried to open it with xarchiver at /usr/binxarchiver i clicked on extract and that's it i'm lost. Could someone help me please.
if you have extracted firefox into its own folder, thats it. Just run it from there. You can make your own menu entry via editing the appropriate menu file or with MenuManager if you want (see my video on the Personal Menu and MenuManager for more info).
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
I used to do this on my older AntiX installs when we ran iceape.

After I extracted the firefox .bz2 . I moved into my opt folder. To secure it.

My launcher path was

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/opt/firefox/firefox
When I wanted to update firefox. Which a user cannot do through the browser because everything is in /opt

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gksu /opt/firefox/firefox

then do
Help>About Firefox>Update Firefox. In my Firefox toolbar.

After it updates I would close it and the terminal.
Then go back to running firefox as a regular user.

HTH

I got my icon out of the extracted firefox folder also. Since I run experimental Iceweasel. I have no reason to do that anymore in AntiX.

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           Active apt sources in file: / etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
           deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-beta
           deb http://debs.slavino.sk/ testing main non-free
Which is newer than the firefox you downloaded

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$ apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 40.0~b3-1
  Candidate: 40.0~b3-1
  Version table:
 *** 40.0~b3-1 0
        500 http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental/iceweasel-beta i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     38.1.0esr-2 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
     22.0~b1-1~bpo70+1 0
        500 http://antix.daveserver.info/testing/ testing/main i386 Packages
Posts: 99
spaceman
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
#4
I'm with roky. If you want to try to install Firefox specifically I apologise, however Iceweasel (Firefox minus non-free branding) is just as good (the same?)

sudo apt-get install iceweasel as roky points out and that'll create menu entry et al. Remember to delete the hashes at the start of the lines in etc/apt/sources.d/various.list that refer to Iceweasel-beta. That'll keep ya up-to-date.