Comments on: How to update to Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6, the easy way

By: Jomz

Jomz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:17:10 +0000

i can’t update my firefox it always stooped so now i’m using Internet Explorer but I like firefox better because i trust it. I can’t Update because of my Update server bacause it has a problem help me fix it i’m waiting for your E-mail. Thank You for your Kindness hope you keep up the good work and fix my Update Server.

By: nishant

nishant — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:24:39 +0000

it’s not working swholt who suggest u but i want to know that do u have any idea that how to run local intranet sites of local windows server on fedora core 6 machine on a same domain fedora pings those server but not able to open local sites with internet on same network settings

By: varun

varun — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:34:38 +0000

thanks man….
you rock….

By: swholt

swholt — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:40:39 +0000

I did it a little different. Do these as root (or su).

Download firefox-2.0.0.2.tar.gz from http://www.mozilla.com.

Create /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2 directory and extract the tarball there.

Copy any extensions you have in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/extensions to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2/extensions.

Change two lines in /usr/bin/firefox:

if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.9/firefox-bin" ] to
if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.1/firefox-bin" ]

MOZ_DIST_BIN=”$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.5.0.9″ to MOZ_DIST_BIN=”$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-2.0.0.1″

Now if something doesn’t work for you you can just change /usr/bin/firefox back to point to the 1.5.0.9 directory.

By: abhinav.org » FireFox 2 and Fedora Core 6

abhinav.org » FireFox 2 and Fedora Core 6 — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:14:57 +0000

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By: phaltu

phaltu — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:48:08 +0000

I simply downloaded the tar file, and copied the contents of the firefox directory to /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7, since I was in a hurry.
It worked fine.

Can anyone tell me if there are any drawbacks to this approach? Apart from the fact that it seems dumb to have firefox 2.0 files in a directory named firefox-1.5.0.7

By: Troy Bennett

Troy Bennett — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:23:00 +0000

I found this article in another place, but it was written in French. I tried this and did not get the second command to work. Referencing back to the French page I found the second command should be:

rpm -Uvh remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch.rpm (vice) rpm -Uvh remi-release-1-1.fc6.remi.noarch.rpm

I have no security concerns; removed the repo after the update.

great article. Thanks,

Troy

By: Dan Connelly

Dan Connelly — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:41:33 +0000

Okay — I did the obvious, which was to download it from the tarball on mozilla.org, then put it into /usr/local/lib/firefox, then create a softlink from /usr/local/bin/firefox to /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox, then uninstall firefox 1.5. The problem: yum eliminated devhelp, which depends on firefox! Attempts to reinstall devhelp whine and complain about no firefox rpm. Any hints? Must I become an rpm slave if I want to use yum? There must be a way around this….

thanks,
Dan

By: Amir

Amir — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:31:30 +0000

I finally got it to work. BTW I am running Fedora FC5.

I had to uninstall Mozilla (using YUM Extender application) and then reinstall Mozilla back again, then update the FireFox.

yum -y –enablerepo=updates install mozilla

yum -y -t –enablerepo=development update firefox

(make sure that there are two ‘-’ before option enablerepo).

I guess some packages initially didn’t get installed and forcing a reinstall for Mozilla did the job.

There is NO installation help available for FireFox 2.0 and Simon’s instructions above were very helpful for me. Thanks!

By: Amir

Amir — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:57:27 +0000

The command should be:
yum -y -t –enablerepo=development update firefox

But it still generates error missing the following, although I have
Mozilla 1.7.13 installed.

Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/mozilla is needed by package eclipse-platform
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla >= 1.7.13 is needed by package yelp
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.13-1.1.fc5 is needed by package mozilla-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.13 is needed by package devhelp

Any idea why?