INSTALL FIREFOX ON AMAZON LINUX X86_64 COMPILING GTK+

gtk-firefox.sh

#!/bin/bash
# GTK+ and Firefox for Amazon Linux
# Written by Joseph Lawson 2012-06-03
# http://joekiller.com
# http://joekiller.com/2012/06/03/install-firefox-on-amazon-linux-x86_64-compiling-gtk/
# Including changes from fork: https://gist.github.com/rehevkor5/5145245

# chmod 755 ./gtk-firefox.sh
# sudo ./gtk-firefox.sh

# Fail eagerly if not run as root.
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
     echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
     exit 1
fi

TARGET=/usr/local

function init()
{
     export installroot=$TARGET/src
     export workpath=$TARGET

     yum --assumeyes install make libjpeg-devel libpng-devel \
          libtiff-devel gcc libffi-devel gettext-devel libmpc-devel \
          libstdc++46-devel xauth gcc-c++ libtool libX11-devel \
          libXext-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel libxml2-devel \
          libXrender-devel libXrandr-devel libXt dbus-glib

     mkdir -p $workpath
     mkdir -p $installroot
     cd $installroot
     PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$workpath/lib/pkgconfig"
     PATH=$workpath/bin:$PATH
     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH PATH

     bash -c "
cat << EOF > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/firefox.conf
$workpath/lib
$workpath/firefox
EOF
ldconfig
"
}

function finish()
{
     cd $workpath
     wget -r --timestamping --no-parent --accept "firefox*.tar.bz2" -nH --cut-dirs=7 http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
     rm -rf firefox
     tar xvf firefox*.tar.bz2
     rm firefox*.tar.bz2
     cd bin
     ln -s ../firefox/firefox
     ldconfig
}

function install()
{
     cd $installroot
     wget --timestamping $1
     FILE=`basename $1`
     if [ ${FILE: -3} == ".xz" ]
        then tar xvfJ $FILE
        else tar xvf $FILE
     fi
     rm FILE
     SHORT=${FILE:0:4}*
     cd $SHORT
     ./configure --prefix=$workpath
     make
     make install
     ldconfig
}

init
install ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.xz
install http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.4.9.tar.gz
install http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.9.0.tar.gz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.32/glib-2.32.3.tar.xz
install http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.26.0.tar.gz
install http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.2.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.30/pango-1.30.0.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atk/2.4/atk-2.4.0.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.26/gdk-pixbuf-2.26.1.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-2.24.10.tar.xz
finish


# adds the /usr/local/bin to your path by updating your .bashrc file.
cat << EOF >> ~/.bashrc
PATH=/usr/local/bin:\$PATH
export PATH
EOF

• Fail eagerly if not run as root
• Removes pre-existing Firefox so that expansion of the newly downloaded Firefox can succeed.
• Cleans up downloaded compressed files.
• Reduce dependence on cwd & reduce cd's to relative paths
• Fixed some indenting

• Avoid downloading more copies of tars... wget will overwrite or skip download based on timestamps.
• Expected file name pattern is now passed to wget. Downloaded files are now more likely to match filename patterns in subsequent commands. It's till downloading robots.txt though, not sure how to prevent that.