This is a script for installing/updating Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird (and possibly others, but not tested) by a linux terminal (e.g. for automatic updates per cron).
- bash
- curl
- grep
- wc
- cut
- sed
- readlink
- rm
- wget
- mv
- mimetype
- tar
- unzip
- gzip
- bzip2
- ln
The configuration can be modified by editing the scripts header (block is marked inside).
Defaults are:
BRANCH=latest
OS=linux64
LANG=de
URL="https://download.mozilla.org/?product=${PRODUCT}-${BRANCH}&os=${OS}&lang=${LANG}"
TARGETDIR=/opt
Possible (known) values
BRANCH=latest|latest-ssl
OS=linux|linux64|osx
LANG=en|de
URL="https://download.mozilla.org/?product=${PRODUCT}-${BRANCH}&os=${OS}&lang=${LANG}"
TARGETDIR=/tmp (or what ever you want)
Note 1: $PRODUCT (or ${PRODUCT}) will be set by the first parameter send to the script and may be firefox, thunderbird, or others (not tested).
Note 2: Other values may be possible, but are not tested.
Just call the script update-mozilla without any parameter to print the help.
desktop-Files are for convenience and can be put to /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications/ to show up in menu (tested with XFCE4).
They also can be edited to fit your needs (and configuration).
- Debian Linux 8 (Jessie)
- Debian Linux 9 (Stretch)
- Firefox 57 64bit de
- Thunderbird 52 64bit de
This script downloads a header from the update-repository and tests it against a local header-file (last header downloaded). If the local header-file does not exist or contains a different timestamp for the update-file, it will be downloaded and extracted (gzip, bzip2 or zip) to the target-directory. Otherwise the script quits with no change.
GPL 3.0 (See the LICENSE-file shipped or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt for details.)