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== Platform specific instructions ==
=== Windows ===
==== = How do I install Firefox Nightly alongside Firefox Release? =====
Here is a video tutorial explaining how to install Firefox Nightly on Windows alongside an existing installation of Firefox:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvh3PxD_p50 Install Firefox Nightly cleanly on Windows]
=== Linux ===
===== 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.
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: [Getting Firefox Nightly to stick to Ubuntu’s Unity Dock https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/09/19/getting-firefox-nightly-to-stick-to-ubuntus-unity-dock/]
===== Is Nightly available as a .deb/.rpm? =====
Mozilla does not provide packages (.deb/.rpm) for Linux, our tar.bz2 binaries work on all distributions which meet Firefox [system requirements https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/system-requirements/].
===== Is there a Nightly repository for my distro? =====
Mozilla does not maintain repositories for distributions, some volunteers maintain their own repository or ppa but usually those are not maintained over time for Nightly.
The advised installation method is to use Mozilla-provided builds and its software updater.
===== Is there a FlatPak/Snap package =====
We have plans to provide Snap binaries of Firefox and once this is ready, we will probably propose also them for Nightly. The tracking bug is [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1297513 Automate generation of Firefox snap packages].
