Installing Firefox 5 on Fedora 15 | Linux

Before Following This trick i would like to tell you that, We’ll use Non-Standard Repository for this, Non-Standard means this repository is not from any official Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

If you are sure and you want to perform this then Please take a back up of your all Mozilla Firefox’s Current Version, like BookMarks and all that stuff.

So You have to Use this on your own risk. If you are not ready to take the risk then Don’t move ahead.

Fedora 14 and Fedora 13 Users can also Install Firefox 5 by using same method but for the same Fedora 13 and Fedora 14 users have to install following RPMs, It might work or not, I haven’t tested this but should work.

RPM To Install Firefox 5 on Fedora 13 :-  http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm

RPM To Install Firefox 5 on Fedora 14 :-  http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm

Perform 5 following steps to Install Firefox 5 on Fedora 15 :-

1) You need to be root to perform this howto. No Need to Switch to GUI, You can use su – and sudo also.

2) Open Your Terminal. ( Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal )

3) Now Execute Following Command on your Terminal.
rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-15.rpm

4) Now Execute Following Command on Your Terminal
yum update firefox –enablerepo=remi ( Two hyphens here with space (- -enablerepo)

OR

yum install firefox –enablerepo=remi ( Two hyphens here with space (- -enablerepo)

If you want to install without asking anything then execute Following command :-
yum -y update firefox –enablerepo=remi ( Two hyphens here with space (- -enablerepo)

OR

yum -y install firefox –enablerepo=remi ( Two hyphens here with space (- -enablerepo)

5) To Start Using Firefox 5, Go to Applications -> Internet -> Firefox

That’s it for Fedora 15 .

To Install Firefox 6 On RHEL Post will come soon as soon as possible.

Hope You all like it. IF you are facing error or issue then do let me know for the same through comments i will try to help you out.

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