HowTo Install the Latest Firefox in Ubuntu (Ultimate HowTo)

[Sokraates]

Desktop environment?? What is that?

I am using Ubuntu Breezy Badger that is all I know about it.

For desktop environments, look [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment]here(/URL].

In a (ubuntu)nutshell: if it's brown, it's GNOME. If it's blue, it's KDE.

Edit: The errors you encountered were due to the app "dialog" not being found. I know it's included in Breezy, but not in Dapper. But dialog is only used, if kdialog (KDE) or zenity (GNOME) are not available, which they are in Dapper.

Are you bychange running Xubuntu Beta?

[Russty of Oz]

Well, mine is brown so it is GNOME.

No I am not running Xubuntu Beta, it is just plain Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10.

Perhaps the "dialog" not being found was due to the fact that I was attempting to update from FF1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3 when there was no 1.5.0.2 on the system? Once I downloaded the right file, it ran with no errors at all.

[Sokraates]

Nope. That wasn't it. Using the wrong file should have resulted in an error message, that the update could not be completed successfully.

With GNOME, the popups are generated with zenity. But lines 58 and 71 are responsible for dialog, which is only a fallback. It's a strange error I haven't heard about before.

Anyway. I'm working on an improvement.

[rockrhino27]

I must say this script was ridiculously easy. Thanks a million to the author of the script. Awesome Job!!!

Rock

[micmic]

Thanks a million to the author of the script. Awesome Job!!!
Rock

Me too, for other locales, edit the FireupRoot and change en-US with your locale (sorry my english)

[johansrk]

An even easier way is to run my script.. It's just the procedure process which is already shown, but this is faster if you are lazzy. But first you must...
- Download the firefox-1.5.0.3.tar.gz file, and put it on your desktop
- make a file called "install.sh" and add the code below
run the script from terminal like this
cd Desktop
sudo sh install.sh

THIS CODE DOES NOT SAVE YOUR BOOKMARKS AND SETTING IN FIREFOX. USE ON OWN RISK.. HOWEVER IT WORKS GREAT ON ALL MY COMPUTERS

sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
cd Desktop

#Pak tar filen ud i OPT folderen
sudo tar -C /opt -x -z -v -f firefox-1.5.0.3.tar.gz

#Link til plugins
cd /opt/firefox/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/* .

#Derefter
cd
mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox1.0.x.ubuntu
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

[giuliastro]

How come Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 hasn't been added to Dapper's repository yet? Any problems?

[aysiu]

How come Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 hasn't been added to Dapper's repository yet? Any problems?

1.5 is in there. Can't you just use Thunderbird's built-in updater to update it to 1.5.0.2?

Package mozilla-thunderbird
* dapper (mail): Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
1.5-0ubuntu6: amd64 i386 powerpc

[giuliastro]

1.5 is in there. Can't you just use Thunderbird's built-in updater to update it to 1.5.0.2?

Nope, updater is disabled in both thunderbird and firefox. And I understand this since I don't know how well this way to update programs would go along with Dapper updates.

[Googler]

i did all steps to get firefox 1.5 but it didn't work, fireox didn't open
i had to download the other script to remove it
and i'm now running the older on(1.0.8)
is there an easier way to update it?