puppet-module-firefox

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
  3. Setup - The basics of getting started with firefox
  4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
  6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

Overview

This module provide installation of firefox. It should work on any linux system because it use pre-compiled binary from mozilla.

Module Description

What it does is download tar.bz2 archive with firefox pre-compiled binary, extract it and create firefox.desktop. I use it on Debian with gnome-shell.

Setup

What firefox affects

  • Download firefox and extract it
  • Require maestrodev-wget
  • New system icon and app launcher

Beginning with firefox

puppet module install h4x-firefox

Usage

  • you can start with just using defaults

    class { 'firefox': }

  • version picking

    class { 'firefox:'
version => '30.0',
}

  • architecture

    class { 'firefox:'
  architecture => 'x86_64',
}

    For 64 bit

    class { 'firefox:'
  architecture => 'i686',
}

    For 32 bit

  • language

    class { 'firefox:'
language => 'en_GB',
}

    Check avaliable languages on mozilla website http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/

  • installation directory

    class { 'firefox':
  root_dir => '/opt',
}

Reference

Limitations

All versions tested with docker on debian-wheezy and debian jessie.