On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Raseel Bhagat<[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:34 AM, stranger in >> black.....<[email protected]> wrote: >> > i have dowloaded the tar.gz version of firefox. How to install it in >> > ubuntu? >> > I know to use it via terminal with the command ./firefox. I need to >> > install >> > it to /usr/bin/............ >> >> Please don't use upstream tar unless it is must. >> >> If you are running jaunty, firefox-3.5 is available in repositories. > > Why not ?
Because the mozilla packaging team takes lot of effort to make sure firefox in repositories is well integrated in the desktop. There is no guarantee of such integrations with upstream tar. Also upstream tar links all the libraries statically. Which means that if there is any security vulnerability in any of those libraries, you are at the mercy of upstream to release a fixed firefox with new library versions. And the last release is that you have to keep watch for updated firefox. Whereas if you are using the one from repositories, synaptic does the job for you. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
