These scripts are designed to manually install and update the latest stable version of Firefox on Debian, since the original repositories are usually a bit behind.
NOTE: There exists "unstable" repositories, which makes it possible to install via
apt
, for some versions of Debian. See this page for more info.
The first time this is used, you should begin with running first_install.sh
.
This will download and install Firefox, while also copying the .desktop
file
to /usr/share/applications/
, in order to make an icon visible in the "start
menu".
./first_install.sh
In the future it should then only be necessary to run the firefox_update.sh
script when Firefox complains about being too old.
./firefox_update.sh
Information about this was taken from the oficcial Debian Wiki and from LinuxConfig.