Simple steps to Install Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 12.04
First login in to the shell as a root user and download the Firefox 3.6.3 tar file from the Firefox mail web site.
- Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages installed on the server
- GTK+ 2.10 or higher
- GLib 2.12 or higher
- Pango 1.14 or higher
- X.Org 1.0 or higher
Run the command to install the packages
sudo apt-get install mercurial g++ make autoconf2.13 yasm libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libasound2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libiw-dev libxt-dev mesa-common-dev zip unzip
For more information check the FireFox WebSite
Once you downloaded the source files run the following commands
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.3/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.3.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d firefox-3.6.3.tar.bz2
tar xvf firefox-3.6.3.tar
mv firefox/ /opt/firefox
Then backup your current Firefox executable binary backup by running the commands below, if the firefox is already installed
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-old
cd /opt/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox-3.6.3/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Now launch the FirFox by running the command
firefox -p
or
./firefox
1st) If receive any c++ related error while running the ./configure command run the
following command to update the c++
apt-get install gcc-c*
