Firefox missed in centos 5

[Dikerson]

I have Centos 5, I upgraded 500 new packages, after that when I try to open firefox, the following mesage appears:

ERROR: The browser does not exist. Please reconfigure

I downloaded firefox-10.0.tar.bz2, try to install using following command:

tar xvsf firefox-10.0.tar.bz2

It decompress, but i dont know what else to do

I need help

[pradeeprajkumar]

Issue the following commands in terminal as root.
[root@localhost~]#cd <To_Decompressed_directory>

/*use the README file(if there is one) in that directory for installation instructions*/

[root@localhost~]#./configure
[root@localhost~]#make
[root@localhost~]#make install
for more info, see the following link:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

[jayd512]

Before you go into that, let's try the simple method.
Have you tried:

yum install firefox

[Dikerson]

Hi thanks for reply, after decompress I do ./configure but I got the following message:

[root@aso firefox]# ./configure
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

I also try: yum install firefox, but i got following

Loading "installonlyn" plugin

Options Error: Error parsing `file:///var/tmp/compilerpackages/\nenabled=0':URL must be http, ftp, file or https not ""

[Lazydog]

STOP!! No need to compile or anything. I have 10 running here just fine without issues and I used the tar.bz2 version from Mozilla's web site. Here is what you need to do:

1. Download firefox-10.0.1.tar.bz2
2. move it to /opt
3. untar with "tar -xvpjf firefox-10.0.1.tar.bz2
4. remove /usr/bin/firefox
5. Add a new link for v10 of firefox with "ln -s /opt/<location of firefox folder>/firefox /usr/bin/firefox"

Now Firefox v10 should work out the box.

[Dikerson]

I really did step by step but it doesnt work, could you helpme in another way ?

[Lazydog]

Have your tried the other suggestion of;

yum install firefox

Do this first as it should install any missing programs.
After you have done this we will try to figure out what has happened.

[Dikerson]

yes, I got yhis screen

Loading "installonlyn" plugin

Options Error: Error parsing `file:///var/tmp/compilerpackages/\nenabled=0':URL must be http, ftp, file or https not ""

[Lazydog]

This sounds strange. Have you tried to;

yum clean all

[Dikerson]

same answer like above