Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

[dhfx]

There doesn't seem to be a Firefox upgrade to 2.0 in the Dapper repositories (unless I've missed it). Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to upgrade? I can download from mozilla.org and install it manually if necessary, but I'd rather do it by the "normal" update procedure if possible.

Or should I just upgrade the whole system to Edgy or Feisty?

[linuxwizard]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

Use this to update Firefox. Works great have used many times

http://pykeylogger.sourceforge.net/w...ild_of_Firefox

[lowey23]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

mmmmmmmmm..............................Feisty.

I would go with that.

[linuxwizard]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

Ubuntuzilla will work on Dapper, Edgy, Feisty no problems at all.

[rothchild]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftweasel

The .debs from here appear to work too.

Child

[cptr13]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

I JUST did this not an hour ago. I was having issues and asked a friend to provide me with a noob-proof walkthrough. I've done it...working fine. Hope this helps:

As for installing firefox... First, go to mozilla.com and download the latest Firefox. Second, remove (the instlled version) it from your system by going to Adept and unchecking the box next to Firefox. Now go to K->System->Konsole and start a console session. Type the following:

mkdir software
cd software
mv ../../Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.8.tar.gz .
tar xzf firefox-2.0.0.8.tar.gz

I'm assuming that when you downloaded Firefox, it went to your Desktop. If you saved it somewhere else, you'll have to change that third command.

At this point you've created a directory (called "software"), you moved the Firefox compressed archive to the new directory and then you decompressed the archive. You should now have a new directory called "firefox" inside the "software" directory.

Just to see, type the following:

cd firefox
./firefox

If Firefox starts up, you're golden. If instead you get some kind of error message about libstdc++.o.5 or something like that, type the following:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

After you get that installed, once again type

./firefox

and now it should work just fine.

[Guest]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

Hi all

I'm really new to Linux, so forgive me if my questions seems really dumb .

I've been facing the same issue as the OP, and trying to follow the step by step guide provided by Cptr13, to whom i'm much thankful for writing it.

As for installing firefox... First, go to mozilla.com and download the latest Firefox. Second, remove (the instlled version) it from your system by going to Adept and unchecking the box next to Firefox. Now go to K->System->Konsole and start a console session. Type the following:

mkdir software
cd software
mv ../../Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.8.tar.gz .
tar xzf firefox-2.0.0.8.tar.gz

I'm assuming that when you downloaded Firefox, it went to your Desktop. If you saved it somewhere else, you'll have to change that third command.

At this point you've created a directory (called "software"), you moved the Firefox compressed archive to the new directory and then you decompressed the archive. You should now have a new directory called "firefox" inside the "software" directory.

As far as the directory creation everything went fine, after i typed the following line as suggested :

root@xxx:~/software# mv../../Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz

and the answer i always get

bash: mv../../Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type

(=no folder or file of that kind - my computer is set up in French)

If i type what i first thought was written, i.e.

root@xxx:~/software# mv ../../Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz

(with a space between mv and the first dot), i get another kind of error :

mv: opérande du fichier cible manquant après '../../Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz' pour en savoir davantage, faites "mv --help"

(=target file missing, after '../../Desktop/...', for more information type "mv --help").

I did what was suggested but couldnt understand what was said.

Any thoughts? or key to get out of this mess ?

Thanks a lot,

Eriol

[Steve_S.]

Re: Firefox 2.0 for Dapper?

I just upgraded to Firefox2, and I followed this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion

I used the manual install. It was very easy, and only took me a few minutes. Hope this helps!

Steve