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Installing Firefox

While Opera is a nice upgrade from the installed browser on ‘Lil XO I haven’t found it all that fun to use. The various menus are in tiny fonts and some settings don’t seem to stick after I’ve made changes. I decided to install Firefox. I’ve been using it and am much happier with its interface.

To install Firefox involves 4 steps:

  1. tell ‘Lil XO it is okay to install Firefox
  2. install Firefox
  3. make Firefox java aware
  4. have Firefox show up on the Activity bar

Let’s do it!

To tell ‘Lil XO it is okay to install Firefox do:

  1. open Terminal Activity
  2. type su -
  3. type cd /etc/yum.repos.d
  4. type nano olpc-koji-ship2.repo
  5. the above command starts the nano editor. Arrow to the exclude line.
  6. erase firefox and the comma from the list
  7. hold down the ctrl key and tap the X key
  8. type Y for yes

To install Firefox do:

  1. in the Terminal Activity
  2. type yum install firefox
  3. just follow the instructions

To make Firefox java aware do:

  1. in the Terminal Activity
  2. type (all on one line) cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
  3. type (all on one line) ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_05/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
  4. the jdk1.6.0_05 must match the name you made note of in installing java
  5. if you’ve forgotten the jdk name: type ls /usr/java
  6. test Firefox by visiting International Children’s Digital Library. The page should load very quickly.

To have a Firefox icon show on the Activity Panel do:

  1. in Terminal Activity (you should still be su)
  2. type wget http://www.catmoran.com/olpc/libsugarize.so
  3. type chmod 755 libsugarize.so
  4. type wget http://www.catmoran.com/olpc/sug
  5. type chmod 755 sug
  6. type wget http://www.catmoran.com/olpc/ff.svg
  7. type sh sug
  8. type firefox when asked for an activity name
  9. type ff.svg when asked for an icon file
  10. type firefox when asked for a command
  11. type org.mozilla when asked for an organization path
  12. if everything went okay you will get a success message
  13. restart sugar by holding down the ctrl key and tapping the alt & erase keys
  14. look for the FF icon on the Activity bar

The instructions for “sugarizing” an activity came from this web page How-to create a “stub/shortcut/launcher” Activity.

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