Look at Harold M’s loooooong explanation on how to install Firefox from tar.bz2…

Now is the year 2012 (February), and still n00bs like me have the same problem as 3.5 years ago – how to get Firefox from/in a tar.bz2 installed…

“googling” for the solution indeed is useless.

/sarcasm I _almost_ long back to Windows… /end sarcasm
Great as Linux (in my case Ubuntu) is, it (still) can not beat OS X (open .dmg file, copy content to Program folder, *ZING* done: try to beat this, GNU/Linux).

could u plz give another way to install n start..

Thanks,
chandu

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help please! thank u.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[matias@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
Hasta aca todo bien, es la manera de “loggear” como usuario (es la mejor traduccion que se me ocurrió)

[root@localhost matias]# cd /opt
Este directorio deberia existir en todos lo linux pero firefox no necesariamente se va a instalar ahí.
Por ejemplo en mi caso ese directorio tiene esto
[root@localhost opt]# ls
google/ kde3/ kde4/

[root@localhost opt]# mv firefox firefox.old
mv: cannot stat `firefox’: No such file or directory
Esto claramente significa que el directorio “firefox” no existe entonces no puedes renombrarlo :-)

[root@localhost opt]# cp /tmp/firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2
cp: missing destination file operand after `/tmp/firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2′
Try `cp –help’ for more information.
cuando copias un archivo, en este caso usando “cp”, necesitas dos argumentos el archivo de origen y el directorio de destino (o el nombre del archivo) en este caso, ya que estabas en “/opt” solo necesitabas agregar un punto osea:
[root@localhost opt]# cp /tmp/firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2
Suponiendo que el archivo que descargaste estaba en /tmp en caso contrario deberias indicar la ruta correcta.
Nota, en los sistemas tipo UNIX (Unix, Linux, Mac) el punto “.” se refiere al directorio en donde estas, por ejemplo puedes hacer “ls .” y veras lo que esta en el directorio en el que estas trabajando. Sin embargo, tambien existe “..” que se refiere al directorio inmediatamente superior, por lo que si haces “ls ..” estaras viendo el directorio “de mas arriba”, entonces veras lo que éste contiene, incluido el directorio actual (“pwd”).

[root@localhost opt]# tar -jxvf firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2
tar: firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Normalmente, si cometes un error tendras una cadena de errores. Este es el caso: no puedes descomprimir el archivo simplemente porque no lo copiaste (paso anterior)

[root@localhost opt]# /opt/firefox/firefox &
[1] 9516
[root@localhost opt]# bash: /opt/firefox/firefox: No such file or directory
[root@localhost opt]#
[1]+ Exit 127 /opt/firefox/firefox
casi lo mismo que lo anterior, es parte de la cadena de error. No copiaste el archivo –> no lo descomprimes –> no ejecutas.

Saludos!

By the way, I’m also trying to update firefox and there’s absolutely no instructions about how to install it. What I’m trying now is to put the folder somewhere and link the executable file to /usr/local/bin. (or whatever my PATH is)
If I’m not wrong, .tar.bz2 is actually a way to distribute software just like rpm or deb. I think it’s used in some “power user” distributions like Slackware.

The first OS I learned was DOS. Simple and elegant command line OS. Linux is a Cluster F***. It’s like you need to learn some secret language in order to update your computer.

I don’t want to learn a new OS language in order to update a computer. I have a job, children, and a life that does not include relearning an OS language.

Linux will always be a little used OS. It’s just not user friendly.

Now I just have to get a copy of windows and install it on this computer. I give up. I applaud everyone who tried to develop this OS, but it’s just is not for mass consumption.

1.download the lastest firefox version which is probably in the tar.gz format !!

2.extract it ; it will create new firefox folder

3.close all the firefox browser

4.now to make backup of ur old firefox i suggest u do this graphical

cut the folder ” /usr/lib/firefox-*” to any other folder say oldfirefox on desktop

* -> represents the version

cut the sh script file “/usr/bin/firefox” to oldfirefox folder

if the “firefox” sh-script not present their could be same script named “firefox.sh” cut that !! but both r not present in same folder

5.now copy the newly extract firefox folder to /usr/lib/

6.Goto terminal and type the code (which ever works)

“#ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox”

OR

“#ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh /usr/bin/firefox”

(1st code worked for me)

7 thats it !! open the firefox shrotcut !!

8 special thx to “Ghooma” and “Harold M.”