This script intend to provide an automatic installation of Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition for x86_64 Linux distros.
Firefox Developer Edition is installed to /opt/firefox-dev/.
Note:
| #!/bin/bash | |
| #title : install_firefix_dev.sh | |
| #description : This script will install Firefox Developer Edition x86_64 | |
| #author : Alexandre ZANNi | |
| #date : 2016/08/30 | |
| #version : 0.1 | |
| #bash_version : GNU bash, version 4.2.47(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) | |
| #============================================================================= | |
| # | |
| # Warning: Require sudo to move files into /opt/ | |
| # You can choose lang | |
| lang="en-US" | |
| url="https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-aurora-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=$lang" | |
| # Get filename | |
| solved_URL=$(curl -L --head -w '%{url_effective}' $url 2>/dev/null | tail -n1) | |
| filename_with_ext=$(echo $solved_URL | sed 's/.*\///') | |
| # Download the file | |
| wget $url -P $HOME --trust-server-names | |
| # Remove archive extension (ex: bz2) | |
| filename=$(echo $filename_with_ext | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//') | |
| # Remove tar extension | |
| filename=$(echo $filename | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//') | |
| temp_folder="$HOME/$filename/" | |
| sub_folder="firefox/" | |
| absolut_filename="$HOME/$filename_with_ext" | |
| if [ ! -d $temp_folder ] | |
| then | |
| # Create a temporary folder, extract archive | |
| mkdir -p $temp_folder && tar xaf $absolut_filename -C $temp_folder | |
| rm -rf "/opt/firefox-dev/" # remove if updating and don't prompt if not existing | |
| mv -f "$temp_folder$sub_folder" "/opt/firefox-dev/" | |
| # Create a shortcut | |
| cat > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox-dev.desktop << EOF | |
| [Desktop Entry] | |
| Name=Firefox Developer | |
| GenericName=Firefox Developer Edition | |
| Exec=/opt/firefox-dev/firefox | |
| Terminal=false | |
| Icon=/opt/firefox-dev/browser/icons/mozicon128.png | |
| Type=Application | |
| Categories=Application;Network;X-Developer; | |
| Comment=Firefox Developer Edition Web Browser | |
| EOF | |
| # Remove the temporary folder & archive | |
| rmdir $temp_folder | |
| rm $absolut_filename | |
| fi |
