Installing Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Ubuntu 5.10

[Joe]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion

Nice guide. Setting restoration didn't work, but I don't use bookmarks beyond the toolbar anyhow, so I don't care. Was pretty straightforward, and it allowed me to keep 1.0.7 as firefox.ubuntu

The reason that I posted this here is because, due to Ubuntu's APT system (same with debian), it's a real pain to install newer versions of software shipped with the OS.

[Newby]

Why not download the installer from www.mozilla.com and install it yourself?

Fuck the APT system for some software...

[iago]

I use Mozilla's FTP.  ftp to ftp.mozilla.org, follow the obvious folders, download firefox-version.tar.gz, extract it, move it to /usr/local/lib, and point your shortcut there.  It's not very hard..

[Newby]

Too easy. Mine requires clicking ala Windows installers. Joe's way just sucks.

[Joe]

That's exactly what I did, went to mozilla.org and got the installer. I just had to cheat the system to allow me to do it.

[iago]

You suck and so does your distro. 


(That's loosely quoted from a mailing list: you suck and so does your filesystem)

[deadly7]

#pkginstall ?? It worked for me. :p

[Newby]

#pkginstall ?? It worked for me. :p

I thought it was installpkg for Slackware..

[rabbit]

Ubuntu is dyslexic.

[deadly7]

Pretty much.

[Joe]

joe@deadmeat:~ $ su
Password:
root@deadmeat:/home/joe # pkginstall
bash: pkginstall: command not found

Ubuntu isn't dyslexic, but deadly clearly is. <3.