Upgrading to Firefox 2 on Fedora 6
Fedora Core 6 comes with Firefox 1.5 package but if we want to upgrade to Firefox 2.0 it becomes an tedious task as yum is unable to upgrade Firefox and the ‘Check for updates’ Menu is disabled in Firefox 1.5. To perform the upgrade we will not remove the existing package but will install the new package and update the shortcut links to point to Firefox 2.0 and not FireFox 1.5. This article will guide you through upgrading you Fedora Core 6 Operating System with Firefox 2.0
NOTE:
To setup this you will require root login. So you must be an administrator to perform this operation.
Step1: Download the Firefox 2.x Package
Download the latest Firefox 2 from mozilla.com. The package will be an tar.gz compressed file. Save the untar file at /usr/lib/ directory using following command
tar -xzvf firefox-2.0.tar.gz -C /usr/lib/
This command will create a new folder called firefox under your /usr/lib/ directory containing the uncompressed files. This will not overwrite your current install as that is located in a directory called /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.x.x depending on the version installed.
Step2: Create the symbolic(shortcut) link to Firefox 2
Now if you wish to run Firefox 2.0 from terminal you can run /usr/lib/firefox/firefox but it’s easier if you replace the symbolic link pointing to Firefox 1.5 so you can run Firefox by just typing firefox in a terminal. This will also have the effect that your Gnome menus will also run Firefox 2 instead of Firefox 1.5.
To do this do the following:
cd /usr/bin/ [root@localhost ~]# rm firefox rm: remove symbolic link `firefox'? y [root@localhost ~]# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
NOTE:
FireFox 2 requires standard C++ library from GCC 3.3.4. To do this will have to type following command
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
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