Installing Firefox/ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz

[fredjb]

I am trying to install Firefox and get an error message:

'Cannot find ia32-libs'.

So I download ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz.

How/where do I install it?

fredjb

[aysiu]

Re: Installing Firefox/ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz

Go to KMenu > System > Konsole and paste these commands in:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install firefox

Then read this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware

[fredjb]

Re: Installing Firefox/ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz

Thanks, aysiu.
As I said, I downloaded ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz. I then copied this to my home folder

Then (code) tar -xvzf ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz

Got over 100 lines of text, beginning with:
'ia32-libs-1/
ia32-libs-1/debian/'

and ending with:
'ia32-libs-1/srcs/glibc_2.3.2.ds1.orig.tar.gz'
then:

'gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now'
fred@fred-desktop:~$

I had already tried (code) sudo aptitude update
and (code) sudo aptitude install firefox
with the result:

fred@fred-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for firefox
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
fred@fred-desktop:~$

Now I'm really stumped! Where do I go from here?

fredjb

[Fenyx]

Re: Installing Firefox/ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz

I'm guessing that this is a fresh install, and that your repositories are disabled. You have to enable them so that you can install programs/packages from the repositories.

To do this, you have to edit your sources.list.
Press Alt+F2, type in

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

The uncomment (remove the '#' at the beginning of the line) the following lines:

deb http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

Save it, then do the steps that aysiu gave (aptitude update and install)

[fredjb]

Re: Installing Firefox/ia32-libs_1.4.tar.gz

Thanks, Jucato and Aysiu. I did as you suggested and everything is now OK.

Thanks again

fredjb