No Luck Installing FireFox 3.6.3 Either

[Larry Lindstrom]

Hi Again:

I downloaded, uncompressed and un-tared FireFox 3.6.3 from:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/development

The readme is a short:

For information about installing, running and configuring
Firefox
including a list of known issues and troubleshooting
information,
refer to: http://getfirefox.com/releases/

Going to that page, and clicking on the release notes link takes me
to a
page where clicking on "Installing" expands to inform me that the
install
will overwrite the previous version of FireFox.

Anything else I should know?

Do I run pkgadd? On what file?

Thanks
Larry

[John D Groenveld]

<URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.3/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/firefox-3.6.3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2>

$ bzip2 -d firefox-3.6.3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2
# pkgadd -d firefox-3.6.3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg SFWfirefox

To add the Java and Adobe Flash plugins:
# ln -s /usr/java/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/
# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/

You can get Adobe Flash plugin from the Extra repo:
<URL:http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/How+To+Add+IPS+Repositories#HowToAddIPSRepositories-ExtraandSupportRepositories>

To add SFWfirefox your Desktop, copy /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
to /usr/share/applications/SFWfirefox.desktop and change the Exec and
TryExec paths.

Happy hacking,
John
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[Larry Lindstrom]

<URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.3/co...>
$ bzip2 -d firefox-3.6.3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2
# pkgadd -d firefox-3.6.3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg SFWfirefox
# ln -s /usr/java/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/
# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/
<URL:http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/How+To+Add+IPS+Repositor...>
To add SFWfirefox your Desktop, copy /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
to /usr/share/applications/SFWfirefox.desktop and change the Exec and
TryExec paths.
Happy hacking,
John

Thanks John:

Works like a charm.

I had to re-target the Firefox icon and do a log-out log in.

The original Firefox icon included a "%u" argument. Should I keep
that argument?

Larry