Recently when my netwas set up on Ubuntu. I was tempted to install many packages. Well I was use to firefox 1.5 since earlier I worked on windows xp. Now here also I wanted to install firefox 1.5 But since it was not tested it never came in repository. I manually downloaded its tar file. On its website it was given to just untar it. This worked for few of my friends but did not work for me. I had to do something for it. I put the query on the techtalk. Got some intresting answers. One good thing I learnt was the Back Port of Ubuntu.
I was suppose to just add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted
universe multiverse
And do "aptitude update"
(both the above as root)
Well it showed me some updates but I could never find firefox 1.5
I googled for certain key word and found this site. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion#head-26d21f8b635c06a9858f7bef322b3821c7545598
There were instructions to be followed for installing from the tar.gz file. Wow after following these instrctions wonderful thing happened was
IT CRASHED...!!!
1 comment:
Well u are doing the wrong thing to upgrade to Firefox 1.5
download the tar file and then run firefox from the untarred folder ...
then u can also change the link in /usr/bin to this folder file.
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