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→Why is Nightly provided as a tar.bz2 archive? Do I have to compile it?
We build and provide distribution-neutral binaries and these binaries can be installed and updated without any dependency to a package manager.
You don't have to compile anything, just unarchive the tar.bz2 file into your ''/home'' or your ''/opt'' folder if you want to make it available to all the accounts on your machine and launch the ''firefox'' file from your shell.If you decide to install Firefox Nightly outside of your Home, such as in ''/opt/firefoxnightly'', don't forget to give this folder the same rights as your user otherwise it won't auto-update: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/firefoxnightly
If you want to create a Launcher for your app, you will need to create a ''.desktop'' file, here is on our blog an article about it for Ubuntu and Unity: [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/09/19/getting-firefox-nightly-to-stick-to-ubuntus-unity-dock/ Getting Firefox Nightly to stick to Ubuntu’s Unity Dock]
===== Is Nightly available as a .deb/.rpm? =====
