Where do I install Firefox?

**rcrummett** · 08-25-2005

Hi -

I am relatively new to Linux, but have picked up on quite a bit in that time. Right now I am trying to install Firefox 1.0.6 on my Debian Sarge system. When I try to install it, either as root or as a user, I am prompted for the installation directory I would like to install Firefox in. The default they give me is /home/rcc/firefox-installer, the directory where I unpacked everything. I really don't like having programs in my personal directory, but I am not sure where I should install it. When I install 1.0.4 using aptitude it is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and I would like to install 1.0.6 here. Is this an okay place to install it?

**lakerdonald** · 08-25-2005

That's one choice, or you could place it in /opt

**Odd_Bloke** · 08-25-2005

I installed mine in "/usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.6"...

**lakerdonald** · 08-25-2005

And for what it's worth, gentoo shoves it in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox with no version

**Odd_Bloke** · 08-25-2005

Originally Posted by lakerdonald

And for what it's worth, gentoo shoves it in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox with no version

Yeah, I was just following Fedora's convention, so by no mean treat my word as law (as if you did anyway :P)...

**rcrummett** · 08-25-2005

And after I install Firefox, can I delete the directory that I unpacked the tar file in? I know these may be inane questions, but yesterday I installed Firefox as I had suggested and the next time I booted up my machine I couldn't connect to the Internet. I don't know what the cause was so I am trying to be cautious.

**Odd_Bloke** · 08-25-2005

Yeah, provided you haven't taken the default install location and installed it there...

**a thing** · 08-26-2005

su
[root password]
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox
exit
firefox

That was easy.

**prosen** · 08-26-2005

I use /opt/firefox since I like to keep the things which I installed later, as separate in /opt dir, and also I dont use version nos, so that I can upgrade easily by installing a newer ver over the existing without uninstalling the existing ver first.

**rcrummett** · 08-27-2005

Okay, so I have Firefox installed and everything seems to be working fine. But when I open a terminal window and type in 'firefox' I get the message 'firefox: command not found'. I have put up a desktop icon so that I can access firefox that way, but I would like to be able to run it from a terminal window too. I have read a little bit about shell scripts and managed to write one that would run if I typed './firefox' but that would sure be great if I could get rid of the period and slash. Any suggestions?

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