Introduction
The popular Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client are available in over 40 localisations. However, if it is desired to host these different versions of the programs in the upload directory of a P2P system life becomes difficult as each executeable has the same name. This script was written to make life a little easier, as it downloads each localisation in turn, checks the md5sum, then renames the file to reflect the locale and target operating system.
Currently win32 and GNU/Linux-i386 are supported, files being renamed
firefox-2.0.0.9-linux-i686-xx-XX.tar.gz
Firefox Setup 2.0.0.9-win32-xx-XX.exe
where xx-XX is the locale of the executeable. The script has only been tested under GNU/Linux, but may well operate under other operating systems if the utilities listed are installed.
In version 20070711 the version of software downloaded is hardcoded in the script, and the locales downloaded are listed in a separate text file (supplied). A separate script is supplied for Firefox and Thunderbird. Md5sums are downloaded by the script.
Dependencies
This software requires a recent version of Perl to be installed, along with wget, md5sum, rm and mv. These programs should be already installed on the average GNU/Linux system.
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