Firefox

Installing Latest Version (on Fedora)

Firefox come installed on Fedora and most other Linux based systems. The problem is that most of the time this is an older version of Firefox the the current one is. To install the current version on Fedora.

• Download the current release from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
• Now expand the file you just downloaded

tar -xzf firefox-2.0.0.1.tar.gz

• Move the firefox folder to /usr/share/ as root.

mv firefox-2.0.0.1 /usr/share/firefox

• The last step is to link /usr/bin/firefox to the firefox-bin in the folder you just moved

ln -s  /usr/local/share/firefox/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox

Installing Addons

Adobe Flash Player

Note: This Page was written with Fedora 10 in mind, and may not work correctly with other versions or distributions.

wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

yum install --nogpgcheck flash-plugin alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl