Install Firefox 7 on an Acer Aspire One running Linpus Lite Linux

Joe45 · 26 November 2011 10:32

Hi Mark,
The first command actually launches a browser so I’m guessing the issue is with where the Icon is pointing to.? Thanks so much for your assistance, below is the output from the commands.
Rgds, Joe

[user@localhost ~]$ /opt/firefox/firefox
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb7b0f5e0: NP_GetValue return
[user@localhost ~]$
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -a /opt
. … Adobe firefox firefox-backup GKxdatacard
[user@localhost ~]$
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -a /opt/firefox
. libfreebl3.chk libxul.so
… libfreebl3.so mozilla-xremote-client
application.ini libmozalloc.so omni.jar
blocklist.xml libmozsqlite3.so platform.ini
chrome libnspr4.so plugin-container
chrome.manifest libnss3.so plugins
components libnssckbi.so precomplete
crashreporter libnssdbm3.chk README.txt
crashreporter.ini libnssdbm3.so removed-files
crashreporter-override.ini libnssutil3.so run-mozilla.sh
defaults libplc4.so searchplugins
dependentlibs.list libplds4.so Throbber-small.gif
extensions libsmime3.so update.locale
firefox libsoftokn3.chk updater
firefox-bin libsoftokn3.so updater.ini
hyphenation libssl3.so
icons libxpcom.so
[user@localhost ~]$
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-11-25 11:16 /usr/bin/firefox → /opt/firefox
[user@localhost ~]$
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -al ~firefox-7.0.tar.bz2
ls: cannot access ~firefox-7.0.tar.bz2: No such file or directory
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -al ~/firefox-7.0.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 14981007 2011-09-29 00:21 /home/user/firefox-7.0.tar.bz2
[user@localhost ~]$

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 26 November 2011 12:47

Your output here:-

[user@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-11-25 11:16 /usr/bin/firefox -> [b]/opt/firefox[/b]

tells us that the symlink (shortcut) is pointing at the /opt/firefox DIRECTORY, rather than the
/opt/firefox/firefox
EXECUTABLE … so you need to change that symlink to point at the right place.

Just run this command in a terminal

sudo ln -fs /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

and you should be up and running

Joe45 · 26 November 2011 14:49

Hi Mark, I tried but get the following response…Rgds, Joe
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo ln -fs /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
ln: /opt/firefox/firefox' and /usr/bin/firefox/firefox’ are the same file
[user@localhost ~]$

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 26 November 2011 14:55

OK run these 2 commands:

sudo mv -v /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-broken

expected output from the above command -

`/usr/bin/firefox' -> `/usr/bin/firefox-broken'

then:

sudo ln -vfs /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

expected output from the above command -

`/usr/bin/firefox' -> `/opt/firefox/firefox'

Joe45 · 26 November 2011 16:39

Success - many thanks Mark…Rgds, Joe

freddie · 26 November 2011 16:52

Joe
Now you have Firefox 7, stick to it!

don’t upgrade to 8 without reading what happened to me (above)
(see my post « Reply #17 on: November 24, 2011, 06:49:33 am » )

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 26 November 2011 16:57

Yeh … as freddie says, I’d stick with FF7 at least till FF9 comes out and is tested in Linpus Lite.

And don’t forget to update the flashplayer too.

Firefox 8 works perfectly on an AA1 in PeppermintOS, but has big problems with Linpus Lite … still that proves it’s not a hardware issue

I’m wondering if ALL future versions of Firefox are going to have issues with Linpus Lite, but only time will tell.

Maybe time to consider a switch to something like PeppermintOS, or Lubuntu etc. ?

For anyone that wants to install PeppermintOS instead of Linpus Lite, click the link below:

Tutorial - Installing PeppermintOS Two on an Acer Aspire One AOA110L ZG5

PeppermintOS beats Linpus Lite hands down … and has ALL the latest software available … including Firefox 8 which actually works

Joe45 · 26 November 2011 23:07

Thanks gents, I’ll certainly take your advice…Best wishes, Joe

andybrody · 29 November 2011 18:57

Hi there thanks very much for the invaluble help it dug me out of a hole cheers again
Andy 8)

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 29 November 2011 19:00

You’re very welcome … thanks for letting me know it helped

homesteader12 · 17 December 2011 21:26

Just wanted to say a huge thanks for advice given here. I really dont understand linux, or any other language for that matter, but love my AA1. Have been very frustrated the past few weeks after upgrading to Firefox 8. Had to disable flash add on to get firefox to work at all, but of course would not then play any videos/flash content. With flash enabled firefox would freeze as soon as any page with flash encountered. Followed your advice here to ‘roll back’ to version 7 and now all works perfectly!!! yippee!!

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 18 December 2011 01:23

Hi homesteader12, and welcome to the forum.

I really ought to reinstall Linpus Lite and see if I can find a way round this Flash issue with Firefox 8 … but I really don’t want to uninstall PeppermintOS, which is SO MUCH better than Linpus Lite, and works perfectly with Firefox 8 and Flash.

If Firefox 9 is still broken in Linpus Lite, I’ll see what I can come up with

jecalpe · 14 January 2012 09:17

Thanks for the guide.
It works perfectly and the “select” option for the commands is just brilliant

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 17 January 2012 12:29

Happy it worked out for you

h27gooner · 20 January 2012 16:40

Hi. I just followed the instructions to get FF8 and although I’ve managed to get the new browser icon I appear to have lost FF altogether. When I click the browser icon it just turns for ages and when I type something into the address bar on
the home desktop it comes back "Could not run command…Failed to execute child process “firefox” (No such file or directory). Can anyone help please.

madpenguin · 21 January 2012 13:27

Just as a matter of interest, have you tried installing Chrome?
(apart from just being better than FF, it tend to be less prone to installation and maintenance issues)

h27gooner · 21 January 2012 14:36

No, I haven’t tried chrome but if someone can give me the instructions for how to do it I’d happily try.

welshturner · 21 January 2012 15:14

Hi all,
I’ve been trying to install Firefox 7 following Mark’s instructions. Like others i was unable to bring up the browser and again used the instructions by Mark. Sadly still no luck. After many attempts i have noticed after putting in command

wget -O firefox-7.0.tar.bz2 “http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-7.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-GB”

it then says,

–14:55:18-- http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-7.0.l&os=linux&lan=en-GB
=> ‘firefox-7.0.tar.bz2’
Resolving download.mozilla.org… 63.245.217.36, 63.245.217.36
Connecting to download.mozilla.org|63.245.217.36|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not found
14:55:18 ERROR 404 Not found.

I guess this is the reason why its not working for me :-[ Or am i broken?

Any help from Mark or anyone else will be gratefully received. Thanks

freddie · 21 January 2012 17:32

Hi welshturner

Afraid Mark is away until early Feb

see http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9853.msg70657#msg70657

Yes, we’re all a bit stuck without him!

Hi h27gooner - re FF8 - avoid! - it screws the system up something awful !!!

see http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9707.msg69812#msg69812

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · 31 January 2012 13:18

I was expecting Firefox 7 to disappear from the the Mozilla site eventually … I’ll upload it to my dropbox and modify the instructions as soon as I’m able.

Something else I noticed … you may have used a lower case L instead of a 1 in your wget command, as your output states:

–14:55:18-- [snip] ?product=firefox-7.0.l&os=linux&lan=en-GB
=> ‘firefox-7.0.tar.bz2’