Installing Firefox & Java on Linux 
**NOTE:** This was originally done on a Fedora Core 6 installation.

__**Firefox** __ 

Download the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla.com 

You have to click on the link below the giant download button that says “Other Systems and Languages” 

Download the appropriate language for Linux to the directory that you want to install it to 

/usr/lib 

Open a terminal window as root & browse to this directory 

Run the following command using the appropriate package name 

tar -xzvf firefox-2.0.0.2.tar.gz 

Run the “firefox” application & it should ask you if you want to make it the default browser; say yes

__**Java** __ 

Go to: 

http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp 

Download the appropriate version of Java (I used the first RPM for Fedora, the second one for Ubuntu) to 

/usr/java 

Open a terminal window as root & browse to this directory 

Type the following commands: 

chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586-rpm.bin 

./jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586-rpm.bin 

Answer “yes” to the license agreement 

rpm -iv jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.rpm

__**Enable Java in Firefox** __ 

From the terminal as root type: 

cd /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2/plugins 

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 

Restart Firefox if it is open


-- FredPettis - 16 May 2008