Firefox Nightly

Updated instructions for installing Firefox Nightly.

Dependencies

This method uses wget, so let’s add that to the list of dependencies:

wget

Appendix

bash script

Here’s a bash script to automate installation:

WARNING: this script uses sudo!

#! /usr/bin/env bash

GHL_STACKER_PKG="firefox-nightly"
GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_URI="https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-nightly-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US"
GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_DEST=/var/opt/$GHL_STACKER_PKG
GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_BIN=$GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_DEST/firefox/firefox
GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_LN=/usr/local/bin/nightlyfox
GHL_STACKER_REPODIR=$KB3C_/REPO
GHL_STACKER_WGET=wget
GHL_STACKER_WGET_LOC=/usr/bin/wget
GHL_TIMESTAMP=`date +%s`

GHL_RET=0
GHL_STACKER_ERROR=""

printf "INSTALL $GHL_STACKER_PKG\n"

printf "  == CHECK for repo folder at '$GHL_STACKER_REPODIR' ... ";
if [ -d $KB3C_/REPO ]; then
	printf "[OK]\n";

	printf "  == CHECK for '$GHL_STACKER_WGET' at '$GHL_STACKER_WGET_LOC' ... ";

	if [ -f $GHL_STACKER_WGET_LOC ]; then
		printf "[OK]\n"
	else
		printf "[NOT FOUND]\n"
		printf "\n"
		printf "INSTALL DEPENDENCY '$GHL_STACKER_WGET'\n"
		GHL_RET=`sudo apt install wget`
		if [ GHL_RET -gt 0 ]; then
			GHL_STACKER_ERROR="$GHL_STACKER_ERROR; unable to fetch dependency '$GHL_STACKER_WGET'"
		fi
	fi

	if [ -z $GHL_STACKER_ERROR ]; then
		#echo "$GHL_STACKER_WGET -O $GHL_STACKER_REPODIR/$GHL_STACKER_PKG.$GHL_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz --show-progress --compression=auto $GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_URI"
		$GHL_STACKER_WGET -O $GHL_STACKER_REPODIR/$GHL_STACKER_PKG.$GHL_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz --show-progress --compression=auto $GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_URI
	fi

	if [ -z $GHL_STACKER_ERROR ]; then
 		sudo mkdir -v -p /var/opt/$GHL_STACKER_PKG
 		sudo tar -v -x --overwrite -f $GHL_STACKER_REPODIR/$GHL_STACKER_PKG.$GHL_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz -C $GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_DEST/
		sudo ln -v -s -T $GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_BIN $GHL_STACKER_PAYLOAD_LN
	fi

	printf "\n"

	if [ -z $GHL_STACKER_ERROR ]; then
		printf "INSTALL COMPLETE\n"
	else
		printf "INSTALL ABORTED - ERROR(s):\n";
		printf "$GHL_STACKER_ERROR\n";
	fi

else
	printf "[NOT FOUND]\n";
	printf "\n";
	printf "Unable to find repo folder!\nIs ghLive init?\n\n";

fi