Firefox 3.5 Installation on Kubuntu 9.04

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I need to know which packages to install to get Firefox 3.5 to run on my Kubuntu 9 installation. I installed the main package and its dependencies using KPackageKit, but the version number in "About Firefox" has not changed. Thanks for any help!
Noah

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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This is a 'universal' method valid for all Ubuntu releases

In short please open a Terminal and type or copy and paste, one row a time then press enter:

echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu' $(lsb_release -cs)' main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu' $(lsb_release -cs)' main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter

Then add this repository gpg key copy and paste this row into terminal and then press enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247510BE

Then update your system type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

Hope this helps

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Rob Frerejean (hffrerejean) said :
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Great. Works perfect.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Im' sorry but the previous answered instructions was to install the develop release of Firefox...

Please be sure you have not installed your Firefox 3.5 using the daily-builds repository...

Here details (differences) of the repositories to add to the /etc/apt/sources.list file...

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How to install Firefox 3.5 stable release

To get stable release of Firefox-3.5 you need to add a repository the
https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa

In short please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type or copy and paste, one row a time then press enter:

echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu' $(lsb_release -cs)' main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu' $(lsb_release -cs)' main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter

Then add this repository gpg key copy and paste this row into terminal and then press enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A6DCF7707EBC211F

Then update your system type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

Hope this helps

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How to install Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 daily development builds

To get development builds of Firefox-3.5.X or Firefox 3.6.X you need to add a repository please visit the
https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa to see the included packages you can install.

In short please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type or copy and paste, one row a time then press enter:

echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu' $(lsb_release -cs)' main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu' $(lsb_release -cs)' main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter

Then add this repository gpg key copy and paste this row into terminal and then press enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247510BE

Then update your system type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

and if you want to install firefox-3.6 daily (nightly) development builds

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Hope this helps

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