Feature #924

Firefox 21.0-1-x86_64

Added by RacerX almost 11 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:06/14/2013
Priority:Normal Due date:
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Description

Had some extra time to work on installing Firefox 21 on an R8.02 Test Box.
Installation information of Firefox 21 on Arch is very limited on the Web today.
Moreover, no nice PKGBUILD like google-chrome's. Also flash is not embedded as in google-chrome.

Packages Needed
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/download/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nspr/download/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nss/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/startup-notification/download/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xulrunner/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/sqlite/download/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libpng/download/

Installation
pacman -U nspr-4.9.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
pacman -U nss-3.14.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
pacman -U startup-notification-0.12-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
pacman -U xulrunner-21.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Next
tar xvf libpng-1.6.2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
cd usr
cd lib
cp libpng16*.* /usr/lib/

Then
tar xvf sqlite-3.7.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
cd usr
cd lib
cp libsql*.* /usr/lib/

And don't forget
ls -s /usr/lib /usr/lib/firefox

and
pacman -U firefox-21.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

You can now launch Firefox 21

Hope this will encourage more users to upgrade to R8.02.

History

Updated by brfransen over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

Chrome/chromium is the only Linux browser that has support for the latest version of Flash. Due to limited LinHES dev resources Chrome is the browser that will be packaged. Please feel free to create a Wiki entry at Misc_tips_and_other_neat_things with these instructions for those that want to use Firefox on LinHES.

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