Comments on: Install Firefox 3 Beta 4 in Ubuntu with One Command

By: JackV

JackV — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:28:41 +0000

I have a similar problem as aditya. but when i try to ./firefox-bin it still output not found. May be aditya is correct abount 64 bit, since i am using 64 bit ubuntu.

By: ray

ray — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:08:22 +0000

# Get the newest release instead of the beta
wget -P ~ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 && tar xjf ~/firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 -C ~

# Cleanup
rm ~/firefox-3.0.tar.bz2

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:20:09 +0000

Hey, i did this and it installed fine, but both flash and mplayer were not functioning, so i was wondering if you could help at all? It says no plugin to play and it won’t do anything when i ask it to install it. I fixed the flashplayer somehow (i forget how, i think i twas just creating a link from the old to the new firefox pertaining to the flash), but using google i’ve been unable to find a resolution to my mplayer problem.

By: promethh

promethh — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:09:47 +0000

I went through the same process as everyone did above, but got the same error message as aditya:

foremank@Aquinas:~ $ ~/firefox/firefox
/home/foremank/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: 442: /home/foremank/firefox/firefox-bin: not found

Checking to make sure that the file is there and that all is well, I see:

foremank@Aquinas:~ $ file ~/firefox/firefox
/home/foremank/firefox/firefox: POSIX shell script text executable

foremank@Aquinas:~ $ file ~/firefox/firefox-bin
/home/foremank/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

…will this not work on AMD64 machines, only Intel 80386 machines? Looking at aditya’s hostname and knowing that mine is an AMD64 as well, are us AMD64 users left in the dark?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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By: aditya

aditya — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:46:19 +0000

i did all the commands you said..but wen i double click on firefox in the home folder/firefox

its asks if to run or stuff..
i press run but nothing happens..
in terminal i do the command..this is the result
even if i closed firefox..i wen

amd@amd64:~$ ~/firefox/firefox
/home/amd/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: 442: /home/amd/firefox/firefox-bin: not found

what can u do to help me sir!! please..am fed up with tihs excess mem usage!!

By: G

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:35:48 +0000

this may be silly of me to ask, but how do you uninstall the previous versions of firefox? or does the newer version completely overwrite the older version?

By: JZ

JZ — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:25:54 +0000

Instead of curl, you can use wget with “-O” opton to form a pipe:

wget -O – -P ~ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b4/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.0b4.tar.bz2 | tar xj

By: fishfillet

fishfillet — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:00:53 +0000

To enable flash plugin, i think this command will work:

$sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/* ~/firefox/plugins/

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