Baires Norte Lug

Adrian Jordan, miembro del LUG de Zona Norte, me hizo llegar un script  que armó un amigo de él que automatiza la descarga, instalación y backup de la versión anterior (si existe) de firefox.

El script es independiente a la distribucion que utilicen por lo que es interesante. Sobre todo si no se actualizan seguidos los repositorios oficiales de la misma.

Simplemente copien y peguen el texto a continuación en un editor, salvenlo con un nombre y luego le dan derechos de ejecución.

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#!/bin/bash

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#Author: Nicolas Carusso #

#Author’s email: ncarusso at hotmail dot com #

#Collaborator: Adrian Rodriguez Renda #

#Collaborator’s email: adrianjordan at gmail dot com #

#Date: 27/02/2010 #

#Last Revision Date: 26/4/2010 #

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#Description: This script updates your firefox version on ubuntu

#(Hardy in my case) by downloading the newest .tar.bz2 file from the official mozilla web site

#I think this is very useful because you don’t need to wait ’til ubuntu

#makes the update for you (belive me, you don’t want to wait such a long time!)

# Go to the User’s home directory

cd $HOME

#Check if directory exists. Otherwise create it

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if [ -d ${HOME}/UpdateFirefox ];

then

echo “Update Firefox directory exists”

else

mkdir ${HOME}/UpdateFirefox

fi

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cd UpdateFirefox

#1)Download the package by asking wich version is needed

#TIP: the version input format is as follows:

# Version file name: “firefox-3.6.3.tar.bz2″

# Input format: “3.6.3″ (without quots)

echo -n “Enter the firefox version you want to update to (F.E: 3.6.3): ”

read version

echo -n “Enter your language distribution for firefox: (F.E: Argentina= es-AR): ”

read language

if [ $version != "" ]; then

echo “Downloading Firefox $version”;

wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-i686/${language}/firefox-${version}.tar.bz2

else

echo “No version entered”;

fi

#2) untar & unzip

tar xvjf firefox-${version}.tar.bz2

#3) Create a Backup Directory with the firefox current version inside

#(& rename the previous back up as “OLD”)

##Check if directory exists. Otherwise create it

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if [ -d ${HOME}/Back_ups ];

then

echo “Backup Directory exists”

else

mkdir ${HOME}/Back_ups

fi

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cd ..

mv ${HOME}/Back_ups/firefox_Backup.tar.bz2 ${HOME}/Back_ups/firefox_Backup_OLD.tar.bz2

tar cjf firefox_Backup.tar.bz2 ${HOME}/firefox

mv ${HOME}/firefox_Backup.tar.bz2 ${HOME}/Back_ups

#4) Delete the firefox current directory & put there the new one

rm -r ${HOME}/firefox

mv ${HOME}/UpdateFirefox/firefox ${HOME}/firefox

#5) Create a symbolic link to firefox executable

rm /usr/bin/firefox

rm /usr/lib/firefox-${version}/firefox

rm /usr/lib/firefox-${version}/firefox-bin

ln -s ${HOME}/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

ln -s ${HOME}/fierefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-${version}/firefox

ln -s ${HOME}/firefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-${version}/firefox-bin

#6) Delete the .tar.bz2 with the new release

rm ${HOME}/UpdateFirefox/firefox-${version}.tar.bz2

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