How to install firefox-2.0.tar.gz in Linux
Q. I have downloaded firefox file from mozilla web site to my Linux desktop system. The name of file is firefox-2.0.tar.gz. How do I install firefox-2.0.tar.gz in Fedora Core Linux? Please provide me step by step instructions for the same. What about my old bookmarks and add-ons. I am going to lose them?
A. Update: FireFox version 3.0 has been released and it is recommended that you install Firefox 3.0 under any Linux distribution.
Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Installing Firefox 2 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won't lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.
Installing firefox on Linux
Just use following instructions to download and install Firefox.
Download firefox to your Linux desktop
=> Visit this site to download firefox
Firefox 2.0 installation - Just untar file and install it
Let us say you would like to install firefox in your own home directory called /home/tom/firefox
$ mkdir /home/tom/firefox
Change directory:
$ cd /home/tom/firefox
Copy your files to /home/tom/firefox and untar it:
$ cp /home/tom/Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz .
$ tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz
And you are done. Start firefox:
$ /home/tom/firefox/firefox &
How do I install firefox for everyone?
Install Firefox in /opt directory. Login as root user:
# cd /opt
# mkdir firefox
# cd firefox
# cp /home/tom/Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz .
# tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz
To start firefox:
$ /opt/firefox/firefox &
You can also create a shortcut from your own desktop 
What about my bookmarks and browsing history - Am I going to lose them?
You won't lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.
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December 7th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Sir ,
I just install Firefox2.0 in my linux machine.
Now i can access Fierefox by giving the command like
” /opt/firefox/firefox ” ,
can i access firefox by the command ” firefox ” only? if it is possible how ?
can i create a shortcut on desktop ?
Thanks,
Hassan
December 7th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Hassan,
You can create Desktop short by right clicking on Desktop > Create New > File > Link to Application
Next Select Application Tab > Type Description and Comment as FireFox and Command as /opt/firefox/firefox
Click Ok to save and you are done. This is for KDE desktop.
> access firefox by the command ” firefox ” only
Open your .bash_profile file in your hone directory and type command:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/firefox
Save and close file.
Hope this helps
April 11th, 2007 at 6:07 am
How to install the tar.gz files or .exe files on linux. Please sent the details as soon
April 11th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
You can not install .exe file on Linux. It is MS - windows specific file.
To install .tar.gz (tar ball):
tar -zxvf file.tar.gzcd file/
./configure
make
make install
Also look for README or INSTALL file
April 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Thanks…
I did the same thing in as described here in trying to Install Thunderbird v2.0. That failed. Don’t I need to be in a different folder to install then my home/gpw/download folder?
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
cd file/
./configure FAILED
make FAILED
make install FAILED
Thanks
April 27th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
george,
This information is for Firefox binary system only. You just need to unpack using tar command and type ./thunderbird to run it
HTH
April 27th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Thanks for you help. Works fine… Question though: here are 2 examples of tar ball files that needed to be handled differently. What should I be looking for so I could find this myself?
Thanks again, one more step for me into the Linux world…
June 8th, 2007 at 8:35 am
J’ai juste installer firefox 2.0.0.4 .
J’ai suivis le démarche ,mais je n’arrive pas à voir la nouvelle version.
toujours il m’affiche l’ancienne version.
merci sur vos aides.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Vous devez dactylographier le plein chemin tel que /opt/firefox/firefox
June 19th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Argh! Downloaded Firefox-2.0.0.4.tar.gz, followed the instructions, but trying to run firefox I get…
error while loading shared libraries:libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Using Fedora 4
July 17th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
hi all,
i’m using fedora6. by default it has got firefox 1.5.0.7 built in. i downloaded firefox-2.0.0.4-tar.gz file from the mozilla site. but i couldn’t get any instructions on how to install it successfully. almost all the instructions i could find tell to copy the gz file in some folder and do a tar -zvxf on it. done. so i installed it in /usr/local/bin/firefox. but when i execute ./firefox thru konsole, it shows this error:
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
if i execute ./firefox-bin it shows this:
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
double-clicking either thru file manager doesn’t give any response.
please help as i need to use firefox 2.
thanx in advance.
baLaJi
July 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
i forgot one thing. if i start firefox 2 thru this:
./firefox &
(as given in installation directions for linux)
then i get this error message.
[2] 3215
[1] Done firefox
[root@localhost firefox]# ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2]+ Exit 127 ./firefox
and when i double click on firefox it opens up in kedit.
July 17th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hi,
You need to install missing binary files, you must install following file using net or from CD/DVD:
July 17th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
hi vivek,
i did yum install libstdc++ from the net. but i still get this error msg:
/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
this happened even after i rebooted linux. i just don’t seem to get the problem. i would appreciate if you or anyone else could help me out.
thanx,
baLaJi
July 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I think you better get new distro such as Ubuntu it comes with all latest software and no such problem. Fedora core is kind of beta software for RHEL.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:58 am
thanx vivek.
i got over the problem. there were more dependencies involved. so i found out the compatibility issue. and i did
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
i didn’t install the tar.gz file i downloaded previusly. rather i did
yum install firefox
which directly downloaded the firefox-2.0.0.4.tar. gz and installed it. but i still can’t figure out why firefox 1.5 still exists in my system when i didn’t do an update? and i can run it too. anyone can tell?
thanx,
baLaJi
July 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
baLaJi,
May be some sort of conflict, you can just forget about old version and use latest one
Glad to know it is all sorted out
July 21st, 2007 at 10:49 am
hello everyone,
this forum’s been dormant for a while i guess. let me dehibernate (pardon my pun) it.
i’ve two partitions in my sata one booting xp and the other fedora 6. i wanted to access my xp data booting into linux. so as root, i did the required ‘mount’ (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/c -t ntfs-3g -r -o umask=0222) in /etc/fstab. i’ve a user account which i log into when i’m using linux normally. now my problem is i’m not able to access the xp partition thru this. with root it’s fine but i can’t be logging in as root.
early help would be appreciated.
thanx in advance,
baLaJi
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:43 am
Download firefox from the website, then run
tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.tar.gz
cd firefox
sudo chmod -x firefox-bin
sudo firefox-bin
After you typed in this into command line, the prompt may say that you dont have right to write…
Just ignore it, now you can just simply create an icon on desktop.
At command field, type /directory/firefox/firefox
then you can double-click it to run new version firefox.
Hope this helps. Cheers!
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
When i run after sudo chmod -x firefox.bin, sudo firefox.bin it says that sudo: firefox-bin: command not found
August 19th, 2007 at 11:22 am
hello,
i am unable to install firefox 2.0.0.6 in ubuntu.i followed the above procedure,but fails.extracted the .tar.gz files but don’t know how to install….
please help
thanks
November 19th, 2007 at 9:35 am
1)How to instal mozila fire fox in red hat linux ?
2)How i share internet commection in my red hat linux server to windows xp machine?
May 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Hello All,
I followd your instructions, but it will not work i get the next message;
/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
there are two firefox and firefox-bin in the folder, both give the same result
I can not start Firefox
can you help me
sincerely herman
May 18th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Herman,
Install libstdc++5 using your distros installation tool such as apt-get or yum
June 20th, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 6:05 pm
For guys who have problems with installing Firefox 2 on older version of your Linux, note that you usually need to update your Linux (SuSe in my case) version first.