Firefox

Firefox is a web browser by Mozilla.

• Version: 33.1.1
• Added: November, 2014
• Link: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

• Show all available versions of firefox

  module avail firefox

• Load firefox module:

  module load firefox/33.1.1

• get quick help:

  firefox --help

• Firefox comes already compiled, so all you have to do is unzip & copy to /export/apps/

  wget "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-33.1.1-SSL&os=linux64&lang=en-US" -O firefox-33.1.1.tar.bz2
  tar -xvf firefox-33.1.1.tar.bz2

• Create firefox directory in /export/apps/firefox/33.1.1/ & copy the tarball content

  sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/firefox/33.1.1/
  sudo cp -r firefox/* /export/apps/firefox/33.1.1/

• firefox module file

  #%Module1.0
  #####################################################################
  ##
  ## Firefox Modulefile
  ## By James Oguya, j.oguya@cgiar.org
  ## November, 2014
  ##
  
  set appname         firefox
  set version         33.1.1
  set prefix          /export/apps/${appname}/${version}
  set exec_prefix     ${prefix}
  set url "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/"
  set msg "Firefox is a web browser by Mozilla.\nFirefox Official Site: $url\n"
  
  module-whatis $msg
  
  proc ModulesHelp { } {
      puts stderr "$msg"
  }
  
  conflict        firefox
  
  prepend-path    PATH    ${exec_prefix}

• deploy the new module using ansible

  ansible-playbook site.yml -u joguya -K -s --limit=compute --tags=module