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a script that downloads a certain Firefox or Thunderbird version and installs it in an extra folder to create an independent and portable App for Linux. source: http://portableapps.com/node/16344
#!/bin/sh
# Configure the following default variables according to your requirements
language="en-US" # e.g. "de" or "en-US"
if [ ! "$1" ]; then
# default if no argument is set:
version="30.0" # chose from http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
application="firefox" # "thunderbird" or "firefox" but file extension, archive extraction, and binary ########################################################
fi
if [ "$1" = "--help" ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ] ; then
echo 'Usage: $0 [application] [version]'
echo
echo Usage:
echo " for example"
echo " $0 mozilla 24.6.0esr"
echo ' -h --help display this help'
exit 0
fi
if [ "$1" ] ; then
application="$1"
fi
if [ "$2" ] ; then
version="$2"
fi
echo result $0 $application $version
echo "This script downloads
--
$application Version $version
--
If you want to install another version press Ctrl+C and call this program with other options, for
example: $0 $application 24.6.0esr"
echo
read -n1 -r -p "Press space to continue..." key
file="$application-$version.tar.bz2"
url="http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/$application/releases/$version/linux-i686/$language/$file"
# or example for firefox nightly:
#file=firefox-32.0a2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
#url=http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/$file
dir="$application-portable-$version"
mkdir "$dir"
cd "$dir"
wget $url
echo "Extracting archive, please wait..."
tar xfj $file
rm $file
mv $application app
mkdir data
echo '#!/bin/sh' > "${application}-portable"
echo 'dir=${0%/*}' >> "${application}-portable"
echo 'if [ "$dir" = "$0" ]; then' >> "${application}-portable"
echo ' dir="."' >> "${application}-portable"
echo 'fi' >> "${application}-portable"
echo 'cd "$dir/app"' >> "${application}-portable"
echo './firefox -profile ../data' >> "${application}-portable"
chmod +x "$application-portable"
echo ... finished
echo "#close all running instances of another $application version:"
echo killall $application
echo "#change into the directory"
echo "# and start the application there"
echo cd "$dir"
echo ./"$application-portable"
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