2032149 - Write script to install Firefox across all packaging formats, channels, and locales on Linux

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

can be installed this way:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf <url>/fx.sh -o fx.sh && sh fx.sh

# Install Firefox from the Mozilla APT repo (default: release channel, system locale)
./fx.sh --format deb

# Install the Nightly .rpm
./fx.sh --format rpm --channel nightly

# Install Beta via Flatpak in French
./fx.sh --format flatpak --channel beta --locale fr

# Install ESR from tarball into /opt
./fx.sh --format tarball --channel esr --dest /opt/firefox-esr

# Install Nightly snap in German
./fx.sh --format snap --channel nightly --locale de

# Auto-detect the best format for the current system
./fx.sh --channel release --locale en-US

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - Provide a unified `fx.sh` script to install Firefox across all packaging formats, channels, and locales

Supports apt, rpm, snap, flatpak, and tarball install methods with
automatic OS/distro/locale detection. Includes Docker-based test suite.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 2032149 - Add Docker-based test suite for fx.sh

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 1: Add shunit2 scaffolding for install-firefox.sh unit tests r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 4

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 2: Add install-firefox.sh for Linux (apt) and linux-install-test CI kind r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 5

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 3: Add rpm support to install-firefox.sh r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 6

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 4: Add flatpak support to install-firefox.sh r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 7

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 5: Add tarball support to install-firefox.sh r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 8

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 6: Add snap support to install-firefox.sh r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 9

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: Bug 2032149 - part 1: Add shunit2 scaffolding for install-firefox.sh unit tests r?#taskgraph-reviewers r=sylvestre

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/59ce5fe07a0e
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b64ee9589bee
part 1: Add shunit2 scaffolding for install-firefox.sh unit tests r=taskgraph-reviewers,ahal
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/427692139ddb
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/85d51c30b7e5
part 2: Add install-firefox.sh for Linux (apt) and linux-install-test CI kind r=taskgraph-reviewers,ahal
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/f8de2b2fe5fb
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/767523630bd4
part 3: Add rpm support to install-firefox.sh r=taskgraph-reviewers,ahal
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/da844fce86fd
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/390c515d6b97
part 4: Add flatpak support to install-firefox.sh r=taskgraph-reviewers,ahal
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/3254185975b3
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d6695373c435
part 5: Add tarball support to install-firefox.sh r=taskgraph-reviewers,ahal
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/4a9f0336277b
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e22ff521a4c4
part 6: Add snap support to install-firefox.sh r=taskgraph-reviewers,ahal

Comment 11

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b64ee9589bee
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/85d51c30b7e5
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/767523630bd4
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/390c515d6b97
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d6695373c435
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e22ff521a4c4