How To Install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 is Mozilla filesytem layout

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mozilla-filesystem.x86_64`

This package provides some directories required by packages which use Mozilla technologies such as NPAPI plugins or toolkit extensions.

We can use yum to install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64.

Install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64

How To Uninstall mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mozilla-filesystem.x86_64

mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/skel/.mozilla
/etc/skel/.mozilla/extensions
/etc/skel/.mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/extensions
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib64/mozilla
/usr/lib64/mozilla/extensions
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
/usr/share/mozilla
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions

References

mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.