1. Obtain the latest firefox version from https://www.mozilla.org
2. Click ' Firefox Free Download '
3. Installed 'firefox-24.0.tar.bz2 ' at # \tmp folder as shown below
4. Then click ' Save ' and the file ' firefox-24.0.tar.bz2 ' will be downloaded
and this can be seen at the bottom left hand corner as shown below.
5. Open up a root terminal window and change directory to /tmp and install
the software as shown below by invoking the command
# tar xvjf firefox-24.0.tar.bz2
6. After that a ' firefox ' folder or directory is created inside the \tmp as
shown below. Then change directory to the firefox folder # cd \firefox
and install the firefox software by invoking the command # ./firefox as
shown below
total 28M
drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 280 Oct 31 11:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 0 Oct 31 08:22 ..
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 80 Oct 31 09:23 .com.google.Chrome.2d43a0
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 880 Sep 10 22:08 firefox
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 28M Oct 26 14:33 firefox-24.0.tar.bz2
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 60 Oct 31 09:20 libgksu-71aYKU
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 31 09:20 .lxterminal-socket:0-root
srwxr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 0 Oct 31 08:23 .menu-cached-:0-knoppix
srwxr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 0 Oct 31 08:23 .pcmanfm-socket--0-knoppix
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 40 Oct 31 09:23 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
-rw------- 1 knoppix knoppix 171 Oct 31 08:23 serverauth.G2opkebv1G
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 60 Oct 31 08:23 ssh-TYo5gipDkQAC
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Oct 31 08:23 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 Oct 31 08:23 .X11-unix
root@Microknoppix:/tmp#
root@Microknoppix:/tmp#
root@Microknoppix:/tmp#
root@Microknoppix:/tmp#
root@Microknoppix:/tmp# ls -alh
total 28M
drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 280 Oct 31 11:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 0 Oct 31 08:22 ..
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 80 Oct 31 09:23 .com.google.Chrome.2d43a0
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 880 Sep 10 22:08 firefox
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 28M Oct 26 14:33 firefox-24.0.tar.bz2
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 60 Oct 31 09:20 libgksu-71aYKU
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Oct 31 09:20 .lxterminal-socket:0-root
srwxr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 0 Oct 31 08:23 .menu-cached-:0-knoppix
srwxr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 0 Oct 31 08:23 .pcmanfm-socket--0-knoppix
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 40 Oct 31 09:23 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
-rw------- 1 knoppix knoppix 171 Oct 31 08:23 serverauth.G2opkebv1G
drwx------ 2 knoppix knoppix 60 Oct 31 08:23 ssh-TYo5gipDkQAC
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Oct 31 08:23 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 Oct 31 08:23 .X11-unix
root@Microknoppix:/tmp# cd \firefox
root@Microknoppix:/tmp/firefox#
root@Microknoppix:/tmp/firefox# ls -alh
total 52M
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 880 Sep 10 22:08 .
drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 280 Oct 31 11:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610 Sep 10 20:48 application.ini
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 220 Sep 10 22:08 browser
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Sep 10 22:07 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Sep 10 22:08 components
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121K Sep 10 22:08 crashreporter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Sep 10 19:15 crashreporter.ini
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Sep 10 22:08 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Sep 10 21:53 dependentlibs.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Sep 10 22:07 dictionaries
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 131K Sep 10 22:08 firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 131K Sep 10 22:08 firefox-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Sep 10 22:08 icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 899 Sep 10 22:08 libfreebl3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 408K Sep 10 22:08 libfreebl3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.3K Sep 10 22:07 libmozalloc.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 719K Sep 10 22:08 libmozsqlite3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226K Sep 10 22:07 libnspr4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 988K Sep 10 22:08 libnss3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 432K Sep 10 22:08 libnssckbi.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 899 Sep 10 22:08 libnssdbm3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141K Sep 10 22:08 libnssdbm3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 126K Sep 10 22:08 libnssutil3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16K Sep 10 22:07 libplc4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K Sep 10 22:07 libplds4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141K Sep 10 22:08 libsmime3.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 899 Sep 10 22:08 libsoftokn3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 221K Sep 10 22:08 libsoftokn3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 198K Sep 10 22:08 libssl3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41M Sep 10 22:08 libxul.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121K Sep 10 22:08 mozilla-xremote-client
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.9M Sep 10 22:07 omni.ja
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 Sep 10 21:52 platform.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 112K Sep 10 22:08 plugin-container
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3K Sep 10 22:08 precomplete
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36K Sep 10 22:08 removed-files
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.8K Sep 10 19:14 run-mozilla.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 825 Sep 10 19:15 Throbber-small.gif
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 163K Sep 10 22:08 updater
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 681 Sep 10 21:55 updater.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Sep 10 20:48 update-settings.ini
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Sep 10 22:08 webapprt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 163K Sep 10 22:08 webapprt-stub
root@Microknoppix:/tmp/firefox#
root@Microknoppix:/tmp/firefox# ./firefox
7. Then we should be able to get the firefox software for Linux OS up and running.
No comments:
Post a Comment