BOSS GNU/Linux comes with Iceweasel installed by default. Iceweasel is a rebranded version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. It can be found in Applications>Internet.
If you still need to install FireFox, you should first download the latest version from Mozilla’s page here. You will be downloading an archive, once the download is complete extract it, you’ll find file(shell script) named firefox in it. Double click and run it to use Firefox on BOSS Linux.
Screenshot of Firefox 3.6.13 running on BOSS Linux 3.1 Tejas
The following command will extract the archive:
$tar -xvf archivename
To add Firefox to the applications menu just as iceweasel is click System>Preferences>Main Menu. From the list of Menus in the frame on the left select Internet, then click New Item. Fill in the fields, you’ll have the give the menu item a name(firefox), click browse and select the firefox script in command, you can even click the icon on the left of the dialog and select the firefox icon from the icons folder in the firefox directory.
New Menu item for Firefox in Alacarte Menu Editor
This will create a menu entry for Firefox in Applications>Internet.
Menu Entry for Firefox
There you have it! Firefox installed and ready to run on your BOSS Linux machine.
Firefox running on BOSS Linux
To install Opera Web Brower on BOSS GNU Linux click here.
double clicking on shell script opens it in gedit instaed of opening firefox. please help I am new to linux and am not understanding the way to install new programs that are not listed in software centre. thankyou
Right click the script, the select Properties. On the Perminssions tab, make sure the checkbox “Allow executing file as program” is checked. The try running the script by double clicking it. If is still opens up in gedit then:
Open a
Terminal(Application>Accessories>Terminal)Use the
cdcommand to navigate to the directory where the shell script is storedThen type
sh shellscriptnameto run the shell scriptOR
Right Click the Shell Script, then click “Open with other Application”, this will open up a dialog, you’ll see an option to “Use a custom command” click it and enter “gnome-terminal”. Then click Open to execute the shell script. The next time you want to run the shell script you can run it in the terminal by right clicking the shell script, selecting Properties and selecting gnome-terminal on the “Open with” tab.