How to install Firefox 8 on Fedora 14

This tutorial will discuss on how to install the Mozilla Firefox 8 through Remi and RPMFusion repos.

1. Open your Linux Shell.
2. Backup the old settings.

tar -cvzf $HOME/mozilla-firefox-profilse-backup.tar.gz $HOME/.mozilla/firefox

3. Change the user to root

su
# or #
sudo -i

4. Install the Remi repos.
Fedora
note : not necessary for Fedora 15 dan 16

# Remi dependencies on Fedora 14 #
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

# Fedora 14 #
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm

# Fedora 13 #
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm

# Fedora 12 #
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-12.rpm

CentOS, RedHat (RHEL)

# Remi dependencies on CentOS 6 and RedHat (RHEL) 6 #
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

# CentOS 6 and RedHat (RHEL) 6
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

5. Check the newest Firefox updates.
Fedora 15/16

yum list firefox

Fedora 12/13/14, CentOS 6 and RedHat (RHEL) 6

yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox

6. Update and install firefox 8
Fedora 15/16

yum update firefox
# or #
yum install firefox

Fedora 12/13/14, CentOS 6 and RedHat (RHEL) 6

yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox
# or #
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox

7. Run Firefox

firefox

Hopefully this article useful.

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