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Firefox 3.0.1 on Gutsy? Even after reloading, Synaptic only shows packages for a 3.0 alpha or 2.0.0.16.

Asked by Nathan Dorfman

I would like to install the current release of Firefox, 3.0.1, on my Ubuntu 7.10 box. Naturally, I would prefer to install an Ubuntu package rather than the generic tarball.

In Synaptic, after I click Reload, the available versions are firefox (2.0.0.16), firefox-trunk (a random trunk build) and firefox-3.0. The latter is *not* 3.0.1 or any other production release, but rather appears to be the same version as firefox-trunk (they share the 'Latest Version' value of 3.0~alpha8-[...].

Am I missing something?

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#1

The current version in the Ubuntu Hardy repositories is Firefox 3.0

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Nathan Dorfman (ndorf) said : 		#2

Thanks, however, I'm asking about Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) -- which is supposed to be supported until April 2009, if I'm not mistaken.

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#3

Yes, but the version in Gutsy would not be any newer than Hardy.
I would suggest you stick with 3.0a and stay within the versions offered by the repositories.

That will save you possible future conflict problems.

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Nathan Dorfman (ndorf) said : 		#4

I'm sorry, what? I'm not sure if we are understanding each other. The firefox-3.0 package in gutsy is a random alpha snapshot. It is not in any way a replacement for production release 3.0.1. There is no package in the gutsy repositories for this (current) release of firefox.

Thanks for your continued attention.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#5

na, please backup your bookmarks if any and

sudo apt-get remove firefox-2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

regards

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#6

The current version in the Ubuntu Hardy repositories is Firefox 3.0.
I'm guessing the current version in the Ubuntu Gutsy repositories is Firefox 3.0

As we, in this community-based support site, are not privvy to the release cycles of the Ubuntu repositories, I would suggest sticking with the available versions unless you are equipped to deal with the dependency repercussions of grabbing installs outside the repos.

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