HowTo Install the Latest Firefox in Ubuntu (Ultimate HowTo)

[aysiu]

GREAT!! now another problem
after i do step 3 it asks for a password...i do know the password however when i try to type it in nothing happens my keyboard is almost new so i know it isnt messed up.

An administrator should be installing it. If you're logged in as the first user you created during installation, you're an administrator, and the password should be your password.

When you type your password in, there's no visual feedback, but it is being accepted.

[aysiu]

Im sorry i have no clue what you mean by that?....do i type that code very first in the terminal thing?

towsonu2003 was responding to your original question about permissions and the /opt directory.

[morbid_bean]

ok cool so far its working its downloading now...as far as me being a guinea pig im an honord to do this

[morbid_bean]

HELL YES! It works! Thanks alot. by the way that link you gave me was it your website or what...because its now in my bookmarks

[Harold P]

That was an easy installation.

Just do:

./firefox

Inside the directory you extracted it into.

[aysiu]

HELL YES! It works! Thanks alot. by the way that link you gave me was it your website or what...because its now in my bookmarks

Thanks for being the guinea pig on the 1.5.0.2 version, and, yes, that is my website.

[joe_bling]

Ensnared, I followed your instructions to the letter on my Ubuntu 5.10 box. I have Thunderbird in Applications-->Internet Gnome menu. When I click to start it, nothing happens. Do you have any suggestions?

[Ensnared]

Ensnared, I followed your instructions to the letter on my Ubuntu 5.10 box. I have Thunderbird in Applications-->Internet Gnome menu. When I click to start it, nothing happens. Do you have any suggestions?

Not really, other than trying to run "mozilla-thunderbird" from a command-prompt and see if you get any errors.
You might also want to make sure your menu-item is executing the "mozilla-thunderbird" command - I use KDE, but in Gnome I think you have to right-click the menu and select "Edit Menu" to check this.

[Rikostan]

Very cool script aysiu, thanks for writing it up!

[aysiu]

Very cool script aysiu, thanks for writing it up!

Use it while you can--it becomes obsolete in June.