puppet-module-firefox

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with firefox
   • What firefox affects
   • Beginning with firefox
4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

Overview

This module provide installation of firefox. It should work on any linux system because it use pre-compiled binary from mozilla.

Module Description

What it does is download tar.bz2 archive with firefox pre-compiled binary, extract it and create firefox.desktop. I use it on Debian with gnome-shell.

Setup

What firefox affects

• Download firefox and extract it
• Require maestrodev-wget
• New system icon and app launcher

Beginning with firefox

puppet module install h4x-firefox

Usage

• you can start with just using defaults

   class { 'firefox': }

• version picking

  class { 'firefox:'
    version => '30.0',
  }

• architecture

   class { 'firefox:'
      architecture => 'x86_64',
   }

For 64 bit

   class { 'firefox:'
      architecture => 'i686',
   }

For 32 bit

• language

  class { 'firefox:'
    language => 'en_GB',
  }

Check avaliable languages on mozilla website http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/

• installation directory

   class { 'firefox':
      root_dir => '/opt',
   }

Reference

Limitations

All versions tested with docker on debian-wheezy and debian jessie.