Some time ago, I wrote a couple of Bash scripts to automate downloading
Firefox and do related processing. The download one follows. It pulls
the files from "ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/" and
assumes US English. It also renames the files to get rid of embedded
spaces and generally clean up the names.
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#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == '' ] ; then
echo "Usage is: $0 ESR-version-number"
exit
fi
VERSION="$1"
# E.g.
# wget -O ~/Downloads/Mozilla-ESR/Firefox/FF.exe \
#
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/17.0.6esr/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2017.0.6esr.exe
DIR='/home/ffguy/Downloads/Mozilla-ESR/Firefox'
BASE='http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases'
URL="$BASE/${VERSION}esr"
R32="linux-i686/en-US"
R64="linux-x86_64/en-US"
RW32="win32/en-US"
RW64="win64/en-US"
echo ''
echo Base URL = $URL
echo Target = $DIR
echo Press Enter if Base and Target are OK
read JUNK
S32="$R32/firefox-${VERSION}esr.tar.bz2"
S64="$R64/firefox-${VERSION}esr.tar.bz2"
SW32="$RW32/Firefox%20Setup%20${VERSION}esr.exe"
SW64="$RW64/Firefox%20Setup%20${VERSION}esr.exe"
T32="firefox-$VERSION-esr-32.tar.bz2"
T64="firefox-$VERSION-esr-64.tar.bz2"
TW32="Firefox-Setup-$VERSION-esr-32.exe"
TW64="Firefox-Setup-$VERSION-esr-64.exe"
# echo "Downloading $URL/SHA512SUMS to $DIR/SHA512SUMS-FF-$VERSION-esr.txt"
echo "/usr/bin/wget -O $DIR/SHA512SUMS-FF-$VERSION-esr.txt
$URL/SHA512SUMS"
/usr/bin/wget -O "$DIR/SHA512SUMS-FF-$VERSION-esr.txt"
"$URL/SHA512SUMS"
echo ''
# echo "Downloading $URL/SHA512SUMS.asc to
$DIR/SHA512SUMS-FF-$VERSION-esr.txt.asc"
echo "/usr/bin/wget -O $DIR/SHA512SUMS-FF-$VERSION-esr.txt.asc
$URL/SHA512SUMS.asc"
/usr/bin/wget -O "$DIR/SHA512SUMS-FF-$VERSION-esr.txt.asc"
"$URL/SHA512SUMS.asc"
echo ''
# echo "Downloading $URL/$S64 to $DIR/$T64"
echo "/usr/bin/wget -v -O $DIR/$T64 $URL/$S64"
/usr/bin/wget -v -O "$DIR/$T64" "$URL/$S64"
echo ''
# echo "Downloading $URL/$S32 to $DIR/$T32"
echo "/usr/bin/wget -v -O $DIR/$T32 $URL/$S32"
/usr/bin/wget -v -O "$DIR/$T32" "$URL/$S32"
echo ''
# echo "Downloading $URL/$SW32 to $DIR/$TW32"
echo "/usr/bin/wget -v -O $DIR/$TW32 $URL/$SW32"
/usr/bin/wget -v -O "$DIR/$TW32" "$URL/$SW32"
echo ''
# echo "Downloading $URL/$SW64 to $DIR/$TW64"
echo "/usr/bin/wget -v -O $DIR/$TW64 $URL/$SW64"
/usr/bin/wget -v -O "$DIR/$TW64" "$URL/$SW64"
echo ''
exit
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On Tue, 17 May 2016 11:01:29 +0200
[email protected] wrote:
> > > I thought those downloads are for administrators to use them for
> > > intranet distribution. How would a dependency on the OS used to
> download
> > > make sense?
> >
> > The best option is now to download from
> > https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
> > https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/
> >
> > Mozilla always told that we should not do this, but we have no
> > choice, because the "correct" way does not work any more.
> >
> > The only caveat is that we should first check whether the version
> > is also already mentioned on the web pages, before otherwise the
> > files in archive can get last-minute bugfixes without notice, and
> > without modifying the version number.
>
> It's really hard to find polite words for this mess.
>
> So there is actually no reliable way to get a stable released Firefox
> build.
>
> * The website serves you whatever it feels like (or nothing at all)
> * The FTP/HTTP archive may or may not contain unmarked alphas/betas
>
> So i need to paste every link into wget now? And what am I supposed
> to get then?
>
> Best Regards
> Heiko
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