Installing Firefox on OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux)

Question

I am trying to install Firefox 59.0.2 on my linux server(OEL). But everytime I try to install firefox with command (yum install firefox) it installs 52.x version.

Could you please help me with the command to install firefox 59.0.2 in Oracle Enterprise Linux - 7.1

Answer 1

Since you're mentioning Enterprise, that's probably the reason why it downloads the 52.x version: it's the latest ESR (Extended Support Release). To install the latest version, you can:

1. Download the Linux archive from the official page.
2. Untar it with tar -xjvf firefox-59.02.tar.bz2 (current release).
3. Run the firefox executable from the unpacked directory.

Answer 2

If possible, use yum to install Firefox on Oracle Linux. Using yum you can specify the Firefox version to install. Depending on your OL version, you may or may not be able to install Firefox 59.0.2.

To find which versions are available through the yum repositories on your machine, run:

sudo yum --showduplicates list firefox

You can choose a specific version that is shown in the list. So, on my OL7 VMs I currently have Firefox 60.3.0, and can install it like this:

sudo yum install firefox-60.3.0

Note that you may need to uninstall the existing version of Firefox before installing a new one:

sudo yum remove firefox