cannot update firefox

Hi, that is pretty strange. I mean requirement uninstalling Firefox during Updates. Generally, there is at least two simple ways to update software: APT utility or update-manager. With APT [1], You have to run these two commands in terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

With update-manager, just choose 'install updates' option. One more thing. You wrote, that You was instructed to uninstall Firefox first and then run update process again. So, You can remove Firefox with Synaptic or again with APT utility:

## Remove...
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove firefox

## ...and Install
$ sudo apt-get install firefox

Personally I recommend the use of 'update-manager', because it is very simple. Run update-manager, choose 'check for updates' and... if updates are available, install them with 'install updates' option.

Best regards!

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[1] '/etc/apt/sources.list' file should/must contain entries about major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the distribution and these responsible for security updates. Generally after fresh install, there already should be required entries. Have you changed something in the sources.list file?

Firefox should be installed, and updated automatically.

Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and give us the output of the following

lsb_release - a; uname -a; apt-cache policy firefox

Should give us a clue

On 10/13/2012 05:35 PM, kayla ford wrote:
> New question #211128 on firefox in Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/211128
>
> i have tried to update firefox i was instructed to un install then run the upgrade again, but i do not know who to un install firefox and i can't seem to update either
>

Maybe you mean to upgrade firefox to a newer and unstable version ? Beta ?

Firefox is pre-installed in Ubuntu and updated automatically with the
regular updates.

If you want instructions on how to upgrade to a newer version
(beta-unstable) just let us know.

Thanks