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Asked by Omar. P

I was trying to upgrade to firefox 3.5, but instead I ended up without it. Now I can't open up my firefox web browser. When I try this comes up "Failed to excute child process firefox(no such file or directory)". When I try to open with terminal it says "firefox currently not installed".
I try typing sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0, but nothing happens. Please could someone help with this problem.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#1

Try this out, go to synaptic and then find firefox and right click ->
mark for reinstallation.

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Omar. P
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> I was trying to upgrade to firefox 3.5, but instead I ended up without it. Now I can't open up my firefox web browser. When I try this comes up "Failed to excute child process firefox(no such file or directory)". When I try to open with terminal it says "firefox currently not installed".
> I try typing sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0, but nothing happens. Please could someone help with this problem.
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Best GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#2

go to software center under internet scroll down to firefox ; check to see if firefox is installed ..... if not install it.... if it is go to package manager and click search type in firefox 3.0 mark all 3.0`s for re install then click apply when finished close -and restart then .. then check under internet see if firefox is there,,...

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Omar. P (omar.p) said : 		#3

Thanks greg toler, that solved my question.

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#4

if you still want to have an upgraded version of firefox go to software center the one above firefox 3.0 is 3.6.1 ... just install it there [[[ do not remove 3.0 ]]]] and you should be good to go ...

 enjoy ubuntu !!!

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#5

the above is wrong it will give you 3.5