Wednesday, February 08, 2012

How to Update Firefox Manually using ".mar" files. - Linux

How to update firefox to a new version. For Dapper.

Things you will need. Download to your home directory.
A. Firefox's updater utility: Found in Firefox's tar file... Download to your home folder and extract.
B. Firefox's .mar file; "firefox-1.5.0.2.complete.mar" file: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...te/linux-i686/
and choose your locale... In my case en-US.
Open gnome-terminal.

Create the following directory:
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/firefox-update
Copy and rename the .mar file to the above directory.
sudo cp /home//firefox-1.5.0.2.complete.mar /usr/lib/firefox-update/update.mar
Copy the updater utility to the firefox-update folder:
sudo cp /home//firefox/updater /usr/lib/firefox-update
cd to the Firefox directory.
cd /usr/lib/firefox
Run the following command to update: (Make sure that you are in your current firefox directory... see above)
sudo ../firefox-update/updater ../firefox-update 0
Once the update completes change to /usr/lib/firefox-update directory and review the update.log file. Look for a "Succeeded" message at the bottom.

Open Firefox and go to Help/About Firefox. It should have the new version.

For More information on .mar files go to the following Mozilla address

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Upd...ing_a_MAR_file

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