Upgrading to Firefox 1.5 on SuSE Linux

Posted on December 5th 2005 in Open Source, SuSE Linux | Modified: Dec 17th 2005

The first step is to visit a SuSE mirror and save the SuSE rpm of Firefox 1.5 for your platform to your machine. This mirror has packages for SuSE 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 10.0 in PowerPC(ppc), 32, and 64bit flavors. Once downloaded, there are a few ways to install the rpm file. First, we will go over the command line method.

  1. Open a Terminal window
  2. Navigate to the directory where you saved the Firefox 1.5 rpm.
  3. Type: ’su’ and then provide your root password
  4. Type: ‘rpm -Uvh MozillaFirefox-1.5-0.1.i386.rpm’ (your filename may be different)

*Note* the ‘U’ is for upgrade, ‘v’ is for verbose, and ‘h’ will output the packages hash.

Another method for upgrading to Firefox 1.5 is with YaST is as follows:

  1. Open your file manager of choice, I am using Konqueror
  2. Navigate to the directory that contains the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 rpm
  3. Right-click the rpm file, click ‘Actions’ -> ‘Install with YaST‘ and provide your root password

4 Responses to “Upgrading to Firefox 1.5 on SuSE Linux”

  1. ozank
    December 9th, 2005 | 11:38 am

    thank you i was looking for a mirror :)

  2. RePete
    December 15th, 2005 | 12:11 am

    Thanks…:-)

  3. jon
    January 4th, 2006 | 7:02 pm

    thank you very much!

  4. bj
    January 7th, 2006 | 5:28 pm

    You might want to consider NOT installing the 64bit version, as there is no Flash Player for 64bit. (I still installed it, though. Thanks for the right-click tip! Most Flash animations try to sell me stuff anyway.)

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