howto install firefox + dependencies on debian without root privileges

Question

I have a problem installing Firefox without root privileges.

Mozilla says the following:

Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:

* GTK+ 2.10 or higher
* GLib 2.12 or higher
* Pango 1.14 or higher
* X.Org 1.0 or higher

Of course i need to install all these dependencies without root privileges as well, but the thing is i don't know exactly how to do this. I've tried a few things i found on the internet, but to no avail.

Solution

The dependencies you listed are already part of most reasonably recent Linux distros. Even Debian stable (aka lenny) already has them all. Almost all graphical programs require them, so if you have a desktop environment running, they will already be installed.

In that case, you can just grab Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html (choose the Linux version in your language). You'll get a .tar.bz2 archive; just uncompress it with

tar -xjf firefox-xxx.tar.bz2

in the directory where you want to install it, e.g. in your home dir. Then you'll get a new directory "firefox". cd into it, and run

./firefox

That's it...