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#!/bin/sh | |
# Configure the following variables according to your requirements | |
version="24.0" # chose from http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ | |
language="en-US" # e.g. "de" or "en-US" | |
######################################################## | |
application="firefox" # "thunderbird" or "firefox" but file extension, archive extraction, and binary execution needs to be adapted as well see filenames at http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/ | |
echo This script downloads "${application} Version ${version} If you want to install another version press Ctrl C and edit and configure this file" | |
read -n1 -r -p "Press space to continue..." key | |
file="${application}-${version}.tar.bz2" | |
url="http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/${application}/releases/${version}/linux-i686/${language}/${file}" | |
#e.g. | |
mkdir "${application}-portable" | |
cd "${application}-portable" | |
wget $url | |
echo "Extracting archive, please wait..." | |
tar xfj $file | |
rm $file | |
mv $application app | |
mkdir data | |
echo '#!/bin/sh' > "${application}-portable" | |
echo 'dir=${0%/*}' >> "${application}-portable" | |
echo 'if [ "$dir" = "$0" ]; then' >> "${application}-portable" | |
echo ' dir="."' >> "${application}-portable" | |
echo 'fi' >> "${application}-portable" | |
echo 'cd "$dir/app"' >> "${application}-portable" | |
echo './firefox -profile ../data $1' >> "${application}-portable" | |
chmod +x "${application}-portable" | |
echo ... finished | |
echo "#close all running instances of another ${application} version:" | |
echo killall ${application} | |
echo "#change into the directory" | |
echo "# and start the application there" | |
echo cd "${application}-portable" | |
echo ./"${application}-portable" |
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