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Install firefox 3.6 stable on Linux in two steps
By You on Thursday January 28th 2010 01:49 | Category: tutorials
Installing Firefox on Linux can be a painful process if you´re new to the platform. Although Firefox comes installed by default on nearly every distro you might just want to install the latest and greatest version 3.6 and keep it up to date. Well here's how to do it.
This tutorial applies only to distro's with the 'aptitude' package manger (apt-get) and focuses on Ubuntu in general.
There are several ways to install Firefox but by far the easiest way is adding the official Firefox-stable PPA to your repositories.
1) Add the PPA to your repositories:
if you're on Ubuntu Karmic or later you're fine using just this snippet and paste it into an open terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable/ppa
WARNING: only if the previous line didn't work out for you.. else skip to step 2
else just add the repository manually using these lines:
Get root access:
sudo su
This adds the source to your sources.list file
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu karmic main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
This adds the matching PGP keys to secure the download
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x9bdb3d89ce49ec21
2) From here it's totally easy:
Update your sources...
sudo apt-get update
and finally...Install the Firefox package
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6
There it is.. Firefox 3.6 stable build on your Linux system.
Enjoy this awesome piece of Open Source.
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