Friday, April 1, 2011

Install latest Mozilla builds on Ubuntu!

Having trouble to install the latest Mozilla Firefox release on Ubuntu! The official repository is late incorporating the beta releases?

Well, do not worry! Where there's a will, there's a way!

Lets install it from the

Ubuntuzilla repository!

Add the repository to the sources.list file

echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

Then add the key

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

Yes, we need to update the repository

sudo apt-get update

Coll! Almost done dude! Go on and install the latest builds of your choice!

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build
 
 
See this page for more details:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page#Installation 


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Update: 3rd April 2011


Courtesy: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion


Mozilla team made Firefox 4 available to Ubuntu community for testing.
  1. Lucid 10.10 or later: Add ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable to your system's Software Sources.
  2. Karmic 9.10: Firefox 3.6 is the latest version available; there is no Firefox 4. To get latest version of Firefox 3.6, add ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable to your system's Software Sources.
  3. Install the package for the new version of Firefox (e.g. package name is firefox