You can do that by typing the following command in the terminal: ps ax | grep irefox While uninstalling Firefox, first make sure it’s not running. Possible problems while uninstalling/reinstalling or updating Firefox This will remove Firefox and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package. To remove Firefox from Arch Linux type the following command in the terminal: The process of installing specific version of Firefox is the same as in other distributions mentioned above. This will install latest stable version of Firefox, which was 59.0.2 at the time of writing this article. To install Firefox using pacman you must open terminal and run the following command: sudo pacman –S firefox Pacman is the default package management system for Arch Linux. Assuming your system already have snap installed, type: snap install firefox Install Firefox using pacman To remove Firefox which was installed via yum type: yum remove firefox Install Firefox using snapįirefox is now available on snap store. In this case there is no need to create symlink again. To do this just remove the folder where firefox has been extracted and install newer version in the same directory. Updating firefox can be done either from browser itself or by reinstalling manually a newer version. To be able to open Firefox from anywhere just by typing “firefox”, you need to create symlink: sudo ln -s /home/linoxide/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox Now you can open Firefox by typing in the terminal: ~./firefox/firefox
#HOW TO INSTALL FIREFOX OLD VERSIONS ARCHIVE#
Modify 59.0.2 if you want to download another version.Įxtract the downloaded archive tar xjf firefox-59.0.2.tar.bz2 At the time of writing this article latest stable release of Firefox was 59.0.2.ĭownload tar.bz2 file of the latest version from Mozilla’s website. If you want to install latest version of Firefox, you need to do it manually as described in apt section above. This command will install Firefox 52.7.2.
To install Firefox using yum, you can type the following command in the terminal: yum install firefox Yum syntax is very simple and apt users shouldn’t face any problem using it.
If the Linux distribution you are using is RedHat based (Fedora 21 and below, or CentOS) then your default dependency resolver for the underlying package manager is YUM. In order to remove the specific version of Firefox which was installed manually, you can simply delete the folder in which Firefox files have been extracted. To remove the firefox package and all its dependant packages, sudo apt-get purge firefox To remove firefox-esr, type: sudo apt-get remove firefox-esr To uninstall Firefox which was installed using apt, make sure Firefox is closed and then type the following command in the terminal: sudo apt remove firefox This one will try to install firefox and will do nothing if you are already using the latest version.
#HOW TO INSTALL FIREFOX OLD VERSIONS UPDATE#
Which will update all packages or sudo apt-get install firefox To update Firefox on your Debian based system, type the following commands in the terminal: sudo apt-get update
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