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 > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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