Installing Firefox & Java on Linux NOTE: This was originally done on a Fedora Core 6 installation.
Firefox
Download the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla.com
You have to click on the link below the giant download button that says “Other Systems and Languages”
Download the appropriate language for Linux to the directory that you want to install it to
/usr/lib
Open a terminal window as root & browse to this directory
Run the following command using the appropriate package name
tar -xzvf firefox-2.0.0.2.tar.gz
Run the “firefox” application & it should ask you if you want to make it the default browser; say yes
Java
Go to:
http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp
Download the appropriate version of Java (I used the first RPM for Fedora, the second one for Ubuntu) to
/usr/java
Open a terminal window as root & browse to this directory
Type the following commands:
chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
Answer “yes” to the license agreement
rpm -iv jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.rpm
Enable Java in Firefox
From the terminal as root type:
cd /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Restart Firefox if it is open
– FredPettis - 16 May 2008