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Upgrading Firefox in Linux

August 16, 2006 in Computing

I’m using Fedora Core 3 Linux in my office, but it only has a very old version of Firefox 1.0.4

I want to upgrade it, but when I looked at Firefox website (http://www.getfirefox.com/), it only provides download on a zip package of Firefox. I unzipped it into my system and run, it failed with some reasons that I don’t understand.

Now, I finally have another method which helps in installing using rpm. It is from the remi repository. All I need to do is downloading two packages and run two commands. The steps are:

  1. Download Firefox package firefox-1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi.i386.rpm (19MB)
  2. Download Cairo package cairo-1.0.2-1.fc4.remi.i386.rpm (273 KB)
  3. running “rpm -Uvh cairo-1.0.2-1.fc4.remi.i386.rpm” using root privilege
  4. running “rpm -Uvh firefox-1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi.i386.rpm” using root privilege

After that, the upgrade is done, all the data, cache and settings will be imported to the new version. Everything is running fine to me.

Reference:

Discussion in Chinese - http://forum.moztw.org/viewtopic.php?t=14995
REMI Website in French - http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2006/07/26/171-firefox-1505-1fc4remi

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