INSTALL FIREFOX ON AMAZON LINUX X86_64 COMPILING GTK+

gtk-firefox.sh

#!/bin/bash
# GTK+ and Firefox for Amazon Linux
# Written by Joseph Lawson 2012-06-03
# http://joekiller.com
# http://joekiller.com/2012/06/03/install-firefox-on-amazon-linux-x86_64-compiling-gtk/

# chmod 755 ./gtk-firefox.sh
# sudo ./gtk-firefox.sh


TARGET=/usr/local

function init()
{
export installroot=$TARGET/src
export workpath=$TARGET

yum --assumeyes install make libjpeg-devel libpng-devel \
libtiff-devel gcc libffi-devel gettext-devel libmpc-devel \
libstdc++46-devel xauth gcc-c++ libtool libX11-devel \
libXext-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel libxml2-devel \
libXrender-devel libXrandr-devel libXt dbus-glib \
libXdamage libXcomposite
mkdir -p $workpath
mkdir -p $installroot
cd $installroot
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$workpath/lib/pkgconfig"
PATH=$workpath/bin:$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH PATH

bash -c "
cat << EOF > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/firefox.conf
$workpath/lib
$workpath/firefox
EOF
ldconfig
"
}

function finish()
{
     cd $workpath
     wget -r --no-parent --reject "index.html*" -nH --cut-dirs=7 http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
     tar xvf firefox*
     cd bin
     ln -s ../firefox/firefox
     ldconfig
}

function install()
{
     wget $1
     FILE=`basename $1`
     if [ ${FILE: -3} == ".xz" ]
        then tar xvfJ $FILE
        else tar xvf $FILE
     fi
SHORT=${FILE:0:4}*
     cd $SHORT
     ./configure --prefix=$workpath
     make
     make install
     ldconfig
     cd ..
}

init
install ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.xz
install http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.4.9.tar.gz
install http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.9.0.tar.gz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.32/glib-2.32.3.tar.xz
install http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.26.0.tar.gz
install http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.2.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.30/pango-1.30.0.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atk/2.4/atk-2.4.0.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.26/gdk-pixbuf-2.26.1.tar.xz
install http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-2.24.10.tar.xz
finish


# adds the /usr/local/bin to your path by updating your .bashrc file.
cat << EOF >> ~/.bashrc
PATH=/usr/local/bin:\$PATH
export PATH
EOF

Worked for me just now on an Amazon Linux ami. I needed to test out my site on the east coast from the west coast. After I installed Firefox, I did ssh -X into the ec2 instance and launched Firefox, there were a couple of warnings but basically it started up fine. Thanks for the script!

I have the same error as Eric Prouty. Any luck in resolving that?

configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.27.3 atk >= 1.29.2 pango >= 1.20 cairo >= 1.6 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.21.0) were not met:

No package 'atk' found
No package 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS
and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
EOF >> ~/.bashrc
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH

@joekiller thank you very much for this script.
How to upgrade latest firefox?

After installing on AWS EC2 Linux server using

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/23.0.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-23.0.1.tar.bz2

I can't connect through SSL anymore i.e. I get this error after running curl -v https://www.google.com (was working fine before I run sudo ./gtk-firefox.sh, alredy tried on a new "clean" instance)
Here the verbose response

• Rebuilt URL to: https://www.google.com/
• Trying 216.58.210.196...
• Connected to www.google.com (216.58.210.196) port 443 (#0)
• Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
• NSS error -12168 (SSL_ERROR_INVALID_VERSION_RANGE)
• SSL version range is not valid.
• Closing connection 0
  curl: (35) SSL version range is not valid.

I had this error also on a previous instance while installing firefox 18.

Moreover I get "No package available for libstdc++46-devel" at the beginnign of the installation.

No luck with sudo yum update.

Any clue on how to restore the right SSL version range or about what is going on?

The only difference is that the link for download firefox is:
http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/43.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/

In the rest, everything is up to date and functional

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/firefox-38.0/libxul.so:
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

RPM for libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 library is gtk2-2.24.23-6.el6.i686, which is not present on Amazon Linux. Its present on CentOS base repo.

I am still not able to fix it... any help much appreciated.

Out-dated. Dont use the script, use Amazon Linux firefox-compat package instead:

Installing the EPLL yum repository:
https://lambda-linux.io/#getting-started

Installing Firefox on Amazon Linux:
https://lambda-linux.io/blog/2015/01/28/announcing-firefox-browser-support-for-amazon-linux/

Replace: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
With: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US

?

any one can install libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 in Amazon Linux yet?

Can confirm that the firefox-compat package which @basilmusa mentioned works like a charm with the last version of 45 ESR.

However, I'm in the situation that I need a newer version of firefox (52 would be great). Has anybody had success with anything beyond 45?

--2017-10-19 05:21:35-- http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
Распознаётся download.cdn.mozilla.net (download.cdn.mozilla.net)… 52.84.23.224
Подключение к download.cdn.mozilla.net (download.cdn.mozilla.net)|52.84.23.224|:80... соединение установлено.
HTTP-запрос отправлен. Ожидание ответа… 302 Moved Temporarily
Адрес: http://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/ [переход]
--2017-10-19 05:21:35-- http://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
Распознаётся download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net (download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net)… 54.230.147.70
Подключение к download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net (download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net)|54.230.147.70|:80... соединение установлено.
HTTP-запрос отправлен. Ожидание ответа… 404 Not Found

:(

failed with error:

--2020-06-23 10:09:40--  http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
Resolving download.cdn.mozilla.net (download.cdn.mozilla.net)... 104.110.245.57, 2600:9000:21ca:a800:1d:f899:9cc6:5981, 2600:9000:21ca:ca00:1d:f899:9cc6:5981, ...
Connecting to download.cdn.mozilla.net (download.cdn.mozilla.net)|104.110.245.57|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://productdeliveryorigin-default.prod.mozaws.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/ [following]
--2020-06-23 10:09:40--  http://productdeliveryorigin-default.prod.mozaws.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/
Resolving productdeliveryorigin-default.prod.mozaws.net (productdeliveryorigin-default.prod.mozaws.net)... 34.195.60.137, 34.198.213.241, 34.239.61.227, ...
Connecting to productdeliveryorigin-default.prod.mozaws.net (productdeliveryorigin-default.prod.mozaws.net)|34.195.60.137|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-06-23 10:09:41 ERROR 404: Not Found.

tar: firefox*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I'm also encountering the same issue, and after i installed from the latest firefox version.
I am getting this error-
firefox: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgtk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: g_log_structured_standard