Grant,

I totally forgot about symbolic linking, it was frustrating to have
Firefox3.0 keep opening up on me when I clicked a link.

Thanks!
Joe

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Grant Bowman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unfortunately, the official Ubuntu archives don't have FireFox 3.5
> yet.  I just talked with asac in #ubuntu-mozillateam to get his and
> the team's recommendation.  So, as of today the best way to get Jaunty
> FF 3.5 is to add a Personal Package Archive (PPA) as described in
> asac's blog post.
>
>
> http://www.ubuntusolutions.org/2009/07/ubuntu-firefox-3-5-install-use-ubuntu-mozilla-security.html
>
> For command line folks, this means:
>
> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7EBC211F
> sudo sh -c "echo 'deb
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu jaunty
> main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-gnome-support
>
> to set 3.5 as the system default: [1]
>
> cd /usr/bin
> sudo ln -sf firefox-3.5 firefox
>
> There are a couple other ways to get it as well.  The daily build PPA
> has more cutting edge packages but is less stable.  FF 3.5 is also
> available as a jaunty-proposed package but I don't recommend this way.
>  Of course one can also get the software directly from
> www.getfirefox.com but you are on your own then.  You won't be able to
> take advantage of the automatic updates, integration work and testing
> efforts that go into the packaged versions (and later security
> updates) that get delivered automatically.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Grant Bowman
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
>
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/380196
>
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