How to reinstall Firefox

Asked by Luis M.Jacinto

I need instructions to reinstall Firefox 3.6.13 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox

If you want default settings then simply run:

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_old

Then rerun the browser and you will get the default settings (This will also remove Thunderbird settings but we can rename those back if this is te case)

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Luis M.Jacinto (ljacinto) said :
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Actionparsnip PLEASE help me with this one, I don’t have web connection since the 9th of February and badly need it.
On the 24th of February I add more information to question 16425 but dint received a answer, so I decide to reinstall Firefox but unsuccessful, result follows:

luis@luis-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
qt3-assistant libbabl-0.0-0 linux-headers-2.6.32-21 libgegl-0.0-0 ruby1.8
ruby linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic qt3-doc libgimp2.0 libruby1.8 gimp-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Could not resolve 'za.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_i386.deb Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
luis@luis-desktop:~$

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Possible the server was being maintained. Either retry now as it is later, or change source in software centre to NOT the ze server.

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Luis M.Jacinto (ljacinto) said :
#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.