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Installing new version(s) of Firefox in Ubuntu 11.04

Asked by Midnight Matt

I've downloaded and unarchived the tarball for Firefox 6.0 from the Mozilla website w\ the intent of replacing the current version of Firefox (5.0), which came as part of the Ubuntu 11.04 installation package. But unfortunately, the setup process isn't carried out automatically as it is in Windows or Mac, and I am too inexperienced or just too stupid to know how to do via command-line. Is there a package I can access via `apt-get install`, or am I stuck?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Open a terminal and type:

wget http://caesar.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org//firefox/releases/6.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-6.0.tar.bz2
tar xjvf firefox-6.0.tar.bz2
cd firefox
./firefox

If works create a desktop or a menu launcher to run the executable firefox binary the path will be:
$HOME/firefox/firefox

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Or better use a ppa, from terminal type...

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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enubuntu (mr.tennents) said : 		#3

Don't do anything, just update your version of Ubuntu and the new version of Firefox will be installed. I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and Firefox has come few days ago.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#4

Indeed, as indicated at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox, Firefox 6.0 is available in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Just update your system, using the Update Manager. (You do not need to update to a newer release of Ubuntu--just bring all the software you have installed up to date.) You need to have the natty-updates or natty-security software sources enabled in order to update Firefox to version 6.0. If you update and don't get Firefox 6.0, please let us know, and we can provide instructions for that.

Updating your system regularly is important because updates are often made available to fix security vulnerabilities, as the security vulnerabilities are discovered.

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Midnight Matt (randygaffer) said : 		#5

The whole thing turned out to be a whole lot simpler than I thought. Once the software had been placed in the appropriate directory, I just had to change the pathname in the Firefox item in Applications>Internet and in the Firefox launcher in the top panel.