installing new update like Firefox

You have mainly two way to upgrade all installed software on your system:

A) menu System → Administration → Update Manager and press verify and install new /updated software

B) Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal

Suggestion: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...

to update and upgrade and also check pending or missing packages, using terminal type, or bettere copy and paste one row a time and then press enter:

sudo apt-get clean

(if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Hope this helps

I think we are talking about two different "updates". You are referring
to the "Ubuntu updates. I am having problems getting my latest Mozilla
Firefox updates to install. After I download the file(s), what do I do
then? When I extract them, I see all the files in the downloaded
folder. But when I open Firefox, and check the version, it is still the
old version (3.0, instead of 3.5).

Thanks for any help.

Brian H

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:45 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:

> Your question #80238 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/80238
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> You have mainly two way to upgrade all installed software on your
> system:
>
> A) menu System → Administration → Update Manager and press verify and
> install new /updated software
>
> B) Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal
>
> Suggestion: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and
> select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal
> window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy
> to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
>
> to update and upgrade and also check pending or missing packages, using
> terminal type, or bettere copy and paste one row a time and then press
> enter:
>
> sudo apt-get clean
>
> (if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not
> see nothing when you type it, then press enter)
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo apt-get clean
> sudo apt-get autoremove
>
> Hope this helps
>

Open synaptic. Search with word firefox. From the results select firefox3.5. Right click and the select mark for installation

none of the answers have solved my problem

Try with http://ubuntuzilla.com/

j31c:

Did what you suggested, but "Firefox 3.5" could be found in the synaptic
list. Only ver. 3.0.

Brian H

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:07 +0000, j3lc wrote:

> Your question #80238 on update-manager in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/80238
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> j3lc proposed the following answer:
> Open synaptic. Search with word firefox. From the results select
> firefox3.5. Right click and the select mark for installation
>

After installing "Ubuntuzilla", as suggested by zvacet, I cannot find the program in my applications, or elsewhere. Also, upon clicking on the "Mozilla Firefox 3.5" downloaded file, all I get is the file contents. The package installer program does not open.

Brian H

Try instruction i found at http://ubuntuguide.net/

You will have to explain how this is done. I am very new to Ubuntu, and
do not understand the language, or where I go to "add" these lines of
text that "Ubuntuguide.net" describes.

Thanks,

Brian H

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 00:33 +0000, zvacet wrote:

> Your question #80238 on update-manager in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/80238
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> zvacet proposed the following answer:
> Try instruction i found at http://ubuntuguide.net/
>

You will add lines to your sources list,but first you have to edit it.Applications>accessories>terminal and type

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

That will edit your source list and then add in it this line

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Save and close file.After that type

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –reckeys 247510BE

Hit enter.Where you are done type

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

sorry it look like I provide wrong link.It should be

http://ubuntuguide.net/?s=firefox+3.5

zvacet:

I followed your directions. But when I go to Synaptic package Manager,
the 3.5 version of Firefox is not there. My problem seems to be getting
the new version into the list for the packet manager to install.

I am using an older Dell laptop .. about 7 years old. Do you think that
could be the problem? I don't remember having this problem loading the
previous version of Firefox (3.0).

Still stumped.

Brian H

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 05:31 +0000, zvacet wrote:

> Your question #80238 on update-manager in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/80238
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> zvacet proposed the following answer:
> You will add lines to your sources list,but first you have to edit
> it.Applications>accessories>terminal and type
>
> gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> That will edit your source list and then add in it this line
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
>
> Save and close file.After that type
>
> sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –reckeys 247510BE
>
> Hit enter.Where you are done type
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
>
> sorry it look like I provide wrong link.It should be
>
> http://ubuntuguide.net/?s=firefox+3.5
>

From http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html download Firefox tar.bz2 file ans save it in your home directory.Then type in terminal

if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/firefox ]]; then sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox; fi && if [[ -e ~/.mozilla ]]; then cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.backup; fi && sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3*.tar.bz2 -C /opt && rm firefox-3*.tar.bz2 && sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins.backup && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins && sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox && sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

You can just copy/paste above commands.That´s it.

Thank you for all your time and assistance. I have decided to
purchase a new computer with a different OS ... Please consider my
request closed.

Brian H

On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:51 AM, zvacet wrote:

> Your question #80238 on update-manager in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/80238
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> zvacet proposed the following answer:
>> From http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html download Firefox
> tar.bz2 file ans save it in your home directory.Then type in terminal
>
> if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/firefox ]]; then sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-
> get
> install firefox; fi && if [[ -e ~/.mozilla ]]; then cp -R ~/.mozilla
> ~/.mozilla.backup; fi && sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3*.tar.bz2 -C /opt
> && rm
> firefox-3*.tar.bz2 && sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins
> /opt/firefox/plugins.backup && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-
> addons/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins && sudo dpkg-divert --divert
> /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox && sudo ln -s
> /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
>
>
> You can just copy/paste above commands.That´s it.
>
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