Firefox, one of the most widely used web browser in internet. It is managed by Mozilla team and they have released the next stable version 6.0 on 16th August 2011. In this post you can find information on how to install firefox 6 using yum. It can be installed, the same way how we install unrar in fedora 15. If you have already upgraded your rpmfusion free and non-free release in your system then skip the dependencies.
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This Post Updated on November 4, 2011.
Dependencies
Run the below command one by one to upgrade rpmfusion free and non-free release-stable.noarch.rpm in your system. Type the password for the root when prompted.
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su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
NOTE: Fedora 14 users after upgrading rpm fusions, you need to install remi repository refer the below comments.
To install firfox 7
Run the following command in terminal and type the password for the user, when prompted.
sudo yum install firefox
Once installed, start your browser and go to Help then select About Firefox. Check the screen shot below.
Thats it your done. Hope this will be helpful for you!!!
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