Install Shiretoko on Fedora/ Ubuntu

As you may already know, Shiretoko is the codename for the beta release of new upcoming member of Mozilla Firefox family, which is Firefox 3.1. If you still haven't heard, you can read about it from here.

It's not difficult to install Shiretoko on Windows as it is just few clicks so the installer does the hard work. For people who have been addicted to Windows it may look like bit difficult to install Shiretoko on Linux. But actually it is not. As I have experienced, it is a very simple task. Just follow these simple instructions.

First, download Shiretoko from here.

Then enter the following comands in a terminal one after one.

Get the root previleges:

su

Extract the archive you have just downloaded, and copy it into /opt . After that, we can remove the original archive:

tar -jxvf firefox-3.1b3pre.si.linux-i686.tar.bz2 -C /opt

rm firefox-3.1b3pre.si.linux-i686.tar.bz2

Next,.. the final step. Create a symbolic link to the shiretoko executable, in /usr/bin . After that, exit from root shell.

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/shiretoko

exit

To test whether everything is working:

shiretoko &

If you have done everything correctly, Shiretoko should run successfully on your computer. :)