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Cannot install firefox

Asked by saites

(I am a n00b) I cannot install firefox. I started by trying to find firefox (which I thought was included). I could not, so I used Adept to find it. I uninstalled it with the intention of reinstalling it; however, I could not find it in the list after that. I then downloaded the files straight from Mozilla and followed their install instructions. Unfortunately, it too failed (libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory). I then tried to install libstdc from Adept (which worked, supposedly) but it still doesn't work/show up in Adept. After that, I tried sudo apt-get install firefox:

Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package firefox has no installation candidate

I really don't know what to do now. I tried restarting and doing everything again, but no luck.

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

What version of Ubuntu are you using? Firefox is installed by default in Ubuntu.
Try to press Alt+F2 and enter:
firefox

If you're using Kubuntu press Alt+F2 and enter:
konqueror

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Hello Saites...

You need to modify your sources.list file

For Kubuntu type:
kdesudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
Exactly as you see it there, then press enter/return. Enter your password when prompted and edit the file in the editor as advised above. You should then save and quit the editor.
The program which reads /etc/apt/sources.list should work again.

For ubuntu 7.10 please paste the below:

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

Save the source list

Run the update manager

gksu "update-manager -c"

Or sudo apt-get update

For sources.list of other versions please refer:

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

Hope it helps

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

oops sorry for the wrong command and please omit the gksu "update-manager -c" line

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saites (saites2001) said : 		#4

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.

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saites (saites2001) said : 		#5

I'm new to this, as I said before, so I'll take a stab at what that did for me:

Kubuntu was set to get stuff it needed from my install CD. By editing that file, I told it where to find packages online. Thus, it was able to locate Firefox (and the 188 package updates).

Is this basically correct? Thank you again for your help.