Firefox is a web browser used for browsing websites. Firefox is designed by Mozilla, a global community working together to keep the Web open, public and accessible to all. Firefox has released his latest version Firefox 26 on Dec 10, 2013. To know whats new in firefox 26 check release notes.
This article will help you to install or update Firefox 26 in CentOS, RHEL and Fedora systems. First check system requirements for installing forefox latest version
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Step 1: Install Required Yum Repositories
Firstly we need to add required repositories, Remi and EPEL for CentOS and RHEL systems, RPMFusion for Fedora systems.
Install Remi and EPEL Repositories in CentOS/RHEL using following commands.
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Install RPMFusion and Remi Repositories in Fedora 19 using following commands.
# rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-19.rpm
Step 2: Install/Update Firefox
After installing required repositories use following command to install firefox on system.
To install on CentOS/RHEL 6 # yum --enablerepo=remi install firefoxTo install on Fedora 19 # yum install firefox
If you have already installed firefox on your system, just update it using below commands.
To update on CentOS/RHEL 6 # yum --enablerepo=remi update firefoxTo update on Fedora 19 # yum update firefox
Step 3: Start Firefox
Start firefox using following command from terminal
# firefox or # firefox &
Need some assistance. Trying to install on RHEL 6.0. Installed Remi and EPEL Repositories (twice) see confirmation and ran update – currently have Firefox 11 (64-bit) installed (See Yum list). Install failing due to some missing dependencies. Any help you can provide would be highly appreciated.
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
package epel-release-6-8.noarch is already installed
[[email protected] ~]# yum list firefox
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, kabi, presto, protect-packages, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, tmprepo,
: verify, versionlock
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
Installed Packages
firefox.x86_64 11.0-1.el6.remi @remi
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Retrieving http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
package remi-release-6.4-1.el6.remi.noarch is already installed
[[email protected] ~]# yum –enablerepo=remi update firefox
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, kabi, presto, protect-packages, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, tmprepo,
: verify, versionlock
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
–> Running transaction check
—> Package firefox.x86_64 0:26.0-2.el6.remi set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: xulrunner-last(x86-64) >= 26.0-2 for package: firefox-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libxul.so(xul26)(64bit) for package: firefox-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Running transaction check
—> Package xulrunner-last.x86_64 0:26.0-2.el6.remi set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: nss >= 3.15.3 for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: nspr >= 4.10.2 for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)(64bit) for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libssl3.so(NSS_3.15)(64bit) for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libssl3.so(NSS_3.14)(64bit) for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libsmime3.so(NSS_3.15)(64bit) for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libjpeg.so.62(LIBJPEG_6.2)(64bit) for package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libsmime3.so(NSS_3.15)(64bit)
Available: xulrunner-last-26.0-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
libsmime3.so(NSS_3.15)(64bit)
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libssl3.so(NSS_3.15)(64bit)
Available: xulrunner-last-26.0-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
libssl3.so(NSS_3.15)(64bit)
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: nss >= 3.15.3
Installed: nss-3.12.7-2.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201009221801.x86_64/6.0)
nss = 3.12.7-2.el6
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libssl3.so(NSS_3.14)(64bit)
Available: xulrunner-last-26.0-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
libssl3.so(NSS_3.14)(64bit)
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libjpeg.so.62(LIBJPEG_6.2)(64bit)
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: nspr >= 4.10.2
Installed: nspr-4.8.6-1.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201009221801.x86_64/6.0)
nspr = 4.8.6-1.el6
Error: Package: xulrunner-last-26.0-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
[[email protected] ~]#
Hi David,
I don’t have RHEL system to test this. So I am not sure this will work or not, So please use this carefully.
You can use CentOS official repository, where latest packages are available.
# rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-6-5.el6.centos.11.1.x86_64.rpm