[ale] install/update

Wolf Halton wolf.halton at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 18:03:22 EDT 2014


You can also dump it in a folder /home/your account/bin/Firefox/ and soft
link to Firefox shortcut in the bin folder. I am typing on a phone, so I
will not enlarge on this here.  The bin path above is in the executable
path by default.
On Mar 15, 2014 11:37 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since you have an ancient Firefox, run rpm -ql Firefox to find where it's
> parts are and replace them with the ones from the tar ball.
>
> What will cause pain are plugins.
>
> You can dump the tar ball in use local and add a path entry.
> On Mar 15, 2014 10:49 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I ought to know the answer to this question, but I do it so seldom that
>> I have forgotten how.
>>
>> Temporarily still running an out of date Fedora.
>>
>> Want to update Mozilla Firefox.
>>
>> Downloaded the current file: firefox-27.0.tar.bz2
>>
>> I can unpack the tarball and run the executable from the command line.
>>
>> BUT . . . .
>>
>> I'd really like to install it in the correct place in /usr so that the
>> desktop icon can find it.
>>
>> yum localinstall <fullpath> sounds like the sort of thing I need, but the
>> man page doesn't give me any confidence that will work.
>>
>> failing that, I can create a link to the file on the Desktop, but
>> clicking on the icon doesn't run the executable.
>>
>> So how do I properly install this tarball in the correct place or get yum
>> to do it for me?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
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