firefox 4.0

[Ralph Janke]

  I am not sure if it will be officially backported to lucid or 
maverick. I would assume it should be available
in natty when it comes out. However, since is my guess, I have not 
looked up
any official statements.

On 03/25/2011 10:25 AM, raymond house wrote:
> Ralph, when do you think this new version will be officially released, 
> I checked synaptics and update manager and don't see it.
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:txwikinger at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     Probably not. I have no idea what has been downloaded. If it
>     is the sources, they need to be build first.
>
>     If it is binaries, I would not know for which Linux distro,
>     kernel, libc etc it was build.
>
>     Furthermore, we do not know if all libraries that FF4 depends on
>     are already
>     installed.
>
>     The safest way to install software on an Ubuntu system is to use
>     packages that
>     are build against the particular Ubuntu release is to use the official
>     archives, or a launchpad ppa where you can find packages before
>     they are
>     officially released for instance.
>
>     The package manager will then ensure that all dependencies that
>     are missing
>     are installed too, and that the binaries are build against the
>     right libraries.
>
>     -Ralph
>
>
>     On 03/25/2011 10:06 AM, Chris wrote:
>>     Can you not right click on the file and run with....  (Drawing a
>>     blank here?)
>>     Thats what I do.
>>     I don't use extract
>>     Chris.
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Ralph Janke
>>     <txwikinger at ubuntu.com <mailto:txwikinger at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         As Darcy said:
>>
>>>         Here's an explanation on how to do that:
>>>         http://askubuntu.com/questions/6339/how-do-i-install-firefox-4/612
>>>
>>>         Darcy.
>>
>>         Which explains
>>
>>>         Firefox 4.0 is available for 10.10 and 10.04.
>>>
>>>         Go to Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center -> Edit (Menu)
>>>         -> Software Sources -> Other Software (tab) -> Add and then
>>>         paste |ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable| and then perform an
>>>         upgrade.
>>>
>>>         Or you can just use the command line method for installing it:
>>>
>>>         |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
>>>         sudo apt-get update&&  sudo apt-get upgrade
>>>         |
>>         -Ralph
>>
>>
>>         On 03/25/2011 09:52 AM, raymond house wrote:
>>>         Thanks Ralph, launchpad ppa ??
>>>
>>>         On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Ralph Janke
>>>         <txwikinger at ubuntu.com <mailto:txwikinger at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>              You should rather use Firefox from the launchpad ppa
>>>             than downloading a non-packaged version of it.
>>>
>>>
>>>             On 03/25/2011 09:42 AM, raymond house wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Hi everyone, I'm trying to put Firefox 4.0 in the
>>>                 computer,I have downloaded it and it opens all the
>>>                 files in the archive manager but then I don't know
>>>                 what to do with it, how do I get it to replace 3.6
>>>                 that I have now?? thanks.
>>>
>>>
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