How do I update Firefox on an offline RHEL6 machine.

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Hi.
I'm fairly new to Linux and I need to update Firefox on a RHEL6 box that is offline. I've got a copy from Mozilla and moved it to my box, but I can't seem to figure out how to update it. Can anyone give my and advice?

Thanks

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Bernard,

Instead of installing the upstream version of firefox, consider using the rpm provided by Red Hat at their download page, and the newest version for 64-bit RHEL 6 is here (firefox-45.1.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm , at the time I type this). At that page, click on "New Versions" and if there's a newer version, it will get it for you.

You will see the version Red Hat has for Firefox is different from what's available from the upstream provider. Part of that is due to something called backporting, explained at this link https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting. An abbreviated/incomplete description of backporting is where Red Hat takes features from the upstream version and puts it into their own versioning scheme. See the link in this paragraph for more specifics on backporting.

I'd personally recommend grabbing the needed firefox rpm. If you already have firefox installed at a lower version, chances are you already have the needed dependencies.

Once you get the rpm to your stand-alone system, copy it to a location such as /tmp/firefox-45.1.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm and either do a yum update /tmp/firefox-45.1.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm or if not installed, yum install /tmp/firefox-45.1.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm

Come back here if you need assistance.

Thank you very much for the information. So I tried to install it using 'yum update *.rpm', but it seems to not like how old the nss and nspr are which leads me to another question. How did you find that firefox rpm on this site? I see that there is a search function on top of the website, but when I searched for firefox I got a lost of articles, not a rpm download. I now need to find new versions of nss and nspr so learning how to find them would be awesome.

Thanks again

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/channels/software/Search.do Almost in the middle of the webpage you can fill in the rpm you look for. Package Search

Package Search will return packages from the specified set of software channels.

Specify your search criteria below. Search For:

And you can specify the architecture.

Kind regards,

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

Good point Tom, I work with x86_64 so much, it's good to take a step back and whoever is doing the search can fill in the architecture themselves.

That is exactly what I needed to know. I'm sure as I go on I'll have other questions (which will be in different posts), but for now I'm rolling. So thank you both very much

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