Ovaj članak će vam pokazati kako instalirati Firefox na Linux. Za druge operacijske sisteme, pogledajte Instaliranje Firefoxa na Windows iInstaliranje Firefoxa na Mac?.

Mnoge Linux distribucije uključuju Firefox kao standardni web pretraživač, i većina ima paketski menadžment pomoću kojega sa lakoćom instalirate Firefox. Uglavnom, trebali bi da instalirate pomoću paketskog menadžmenta. Paketski menadžment bi trebao:

• Osigurati da imate sve nužne knjižice (liberies)
• Instalirati Firefox na način koji najbolje odgovara vašoj distribuciji.
• Kreirati prečace za pokrećanje Firefoxa.
• Omogućiti korištenje Firefoxa svim korisnicima vašeg kompjutera.
• Omogućiti odstranjivanje Firefoxa kao i odstranjivanje svakog drugog programa.

Package management also has some downsides:

• It may not give you the latest version of Firefox
• It may give you a version without Firefox branding

Installing from a package manager

To install Firefox using the package manager, please refer to the documentation of the Linux distribution you're using.

Installing outside of a package manager

Complete instructions for installing Firefox outside of package management may be available at your distribution's support website.

• Installing Firefox on Ubuntu

Before you install Firefox, make sure that your computer has the required libraries installed. Missing libraries will cause Firefox to be inoperable.

• If your system does not meet those requirements, you should download the latest update to Firefox 2.

The following instructions will install Firefox into your home directory, and only the current user will be able to run it.

1. Download Firefox from the Firefox download page to your home directory.
2. Open a Terminal and extract the contents of the downloaded file.

   cd ~
   tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2

3. Close Firefox if it's open.
4. To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder.

   ~/firefox/firefox

Firefox should now start. You can then create an icon on your desktop to run this command.

libstdc++5 error

As noted above, you need to install the required libraries for Firefox to work. Many distributions don't include libstdc++5 by default.

"firefox not installed" message or wrong version of Firefox starts

You must start Firefox with the command

~/firefox/firefox

If you try to start Firefox with the command

firefox

it will either start the package-manager-installed version of Firefox or will tell you the program is not installed.