RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 i grabbed the tarball from getfirefox.com how do I use it to upgrade? The upgrade option is greyed out from within firefox so cant seem to do it that way, and the ubuntu software upgrade system doesnt mark it as an available upgrade.. The README just points back to the getfirefox page ...
powdarrmonkey Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 For now, I would unpack the archive into your home directory and run it manually with the firefox-bin executable. Create a desktop link to that if you want to adopt it most of the time. That way, when it gets published through your package system (you're still gentoo-ing, right?) you won't have to do any fiddling with cleaning it back up or anything. Edit: just read your OP again. For Ubuntu, there might already be a package available through the Personal Package Archives system, but there's no guarantees about its quality. Go with the above for safety.
RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 yeh, I use ubuntu for my laptop just for the ease of compatability with all the hardware. Gentoo all the way on the servers though. Ill give that a try, cheers
RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 dont have a gui on my gentoo machines ;p Always been tempted to try gentoo out on this laptop, but I still struggle when it comes to kernel upgrades, and ubuntu handles them so easily ive just never bothered.
RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 robert@rubuntu:~/firefox$ ./firefox-bin ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory but its right there in the same folder. no worries ill just wait for ubuntu to packge it up
JJonas Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 any use? Firefox 3.5 Ubuntu Repository (deb) ~ Web Upd8
RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 thats the RC aka shiretoko ... Ive already followed those instructions and ended up with the beta installed Thanks though
JJonas Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 ive tried those instructions and i didnt end up with anything installed
kmount Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 If you just apt-get install firefox-3.5 you end up with beta4 but you need to fix the symlink yourself from firefox-3.0 to firefox-3.5. Easier to just wait until someone gets around to releasing it.
RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 If you just apt-get install firefox-3.5 you end up with beta4 but you need to fix the symlink yourself from firefox-3.0 to firefox-3.5. Easier to just wait until someone gets around to releasing it. yeh I will just do that. They must all be on summer holidays just now
JJonas Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Theres ubuntuzilla - but I couldnt get that working either SourceForge.net: ubuntuzilla home
kmount Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 yeh I will just do that. They must all be on summer holidays just now If it's anything like Gentoo it was packaged up on release day but not unmasked (if it even has yet..) until its proven stable.
powdarrmonkey Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Don't know about Ubuntu, but in the Debian world the maintianer has packaged it up with xulrunner and started some preliminary testing, but it's not ready for uploading to unstable yet. I expect Ubuntu will be the same, especially if they're waiting for us. 1
RabbieBurns Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 No problems, no rush really. I never thought of all the behind the scenes effort that goes into it.
powdarrmonkey Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Firefox (/Iceweasel) is such a complex package it does take some work to maintain, plus it's a such an important component it gets lots and lots of testing before it even reaches the unstable suite.
RabbieBurns Posted July 7, 2009 Author Posted July 7, 2009 hmm Dear RabbieBurns, JJonas has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - [ubuntu] firefox 3.5 trouble upgrading - in the *nix forum of EduGeek.net Forums. This thread is located at: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/nix/38069-firefox-3-5-trouble-upgrading-new-post.html Here is the message that has just been posted: *************** Firefox 3.5 just arrived as an update. *************** but I dont see that post here.. was it deleted? or am i going a bit crazy?
JJonas Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 sorry it was deleted Something to do with Firefox 3.5 came down as an update but it did not upgrade my browser.
RabbieBurns Posted July 7, 2009 Author Posted July 7, 2009 oh right.. i didnt realise we could delete our posts... no worries.
RabbieBurns Posted August 11, 2009 Author Posted August 11, 2009 added the karmic repositories and was able to upgrade to 3.5 that way.
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