Aptana on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex without Firefox2

If you had a previous installation of Aptana Studio in hardy and now that you've upgraded to ibex it no longer works then you aren't alone. It no longer works since during the upgrade Firefox 2 was removed from your system, and there isn't a way to put it back in as its been removed from the package manager.

Luckily the fix is easy...

sudo apt-get install xulrunner

Then you'll need to either edit or create a startup script for Aptana to use. So make a file called "runAptana.sh" in /usr/local/aptana and inside that put...

#!/bin/bash
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
/usr/local/aptana/AptanaStudio

Then, whenever you want to run Aptana use that script instead; otherwise you'll get those nasty errors which hamper your daily work efforts!

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1st Nov 2008 in Firefox, Ubuntu, and Aptana