Installing Firefox 2 on Debian Etch

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Contents 1 Installing Firefox 2 2 Java 3 Adobe Flash Player 9 4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 Mplayer and MP3 Playback

Installing Firefox 2

su

apt-get install libstdc++5

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.0.1.tar.gz

cd /opt
tar zxvf /tmp/firefox*
cd /opt/firefox
rm -R plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins /opt/firefox

ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla

Java

apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-fonts sun-java5-plugin

update-java-alternatives --set java-1.5.0-sun

Test here: http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

Adobe Flash Player 9

Adobe Acrobat Reader

apt-get install acroread acroread-escript acroread-plugins mozilla-acroread

Mplayer and MP3 Playback

apt-get install mplayer mplayer-skin-blue mozilla-mplayer w32codecs mplayer-doc