How to install firefox from .tar.bz2 extracted files

aaronkili45 · November 28, 2015, 5:55pm

Hello eveyone

I just downloaded the latest firefox, in the file firefox-42.0.tar.bz2, i have extracted all the files as in the screen shot below:

How can i be able to install the files on my system?

raghuu · November 29, 2015, 6:20am

Hi

First of all remove the installed firefox

#yum remove firefox -y

Now extract the downloaded package for that follow the below command

#tar xvjf firexxxxxxx

here–

x : extract
j : deal with bzipped file
f : read from a file
v : verbose

after that move the extracted package to /opt and create the symbolic link

#ln -s /opt/firefox42/firefox /usr/bin/firefox42

now run the below command in terminal

#firefox42 &

aaronkili45 · December 4, 2015, 5:33pm

Thanks Works just fine, that is why i like Linux.

Satish_Aherkar · December 8, 2015, 10:15am

Or

He can set environment variable. no need to run this in background.

Example

Firefox_path=( Path of firefox bin )
PATH=$Firefox_path:$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH

This should work for you.

Thanks,

msp_surya · December 10, 2015, 6:54am

@raghuu, the method u told its working raghu,

but the ./configure, make , make install that method is not working to install firefox, can u tell in this ./configure method how to install firefox

aaronkili45 · December 10, 2015, 8:56am

@msp_surya thanks for mentioning that, just wanted to try that method also