Installing latest version of firefox
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The default installation of firefox may or may not be latest version. If you want to use latest version of firefox, then download firefox source ( i.e tar.gz ) files from this location.
Download the latest version of firefox releases from ftp site: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
suppose if the firefox version is 3.5.6 then the file name is like firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2 This file consists of firefox source files under "firefox" directory. Now we can copy this firefox and replace with the directory in /usr/lib/firefox
for that use this commands
$ su
< password >
# mv firefox* /usr/lib/
# cd /usr/lib
# tar -jxvf firefox*
# rm firefox*.bz2
Actual upgrade from package manager, doesn't takes us to the latest version. so this procedure helps to upgrade to newer version.
Download the latest version of firefox releases from ftp site: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
suppose if the firefox version is 3.5.6 then the file name is like firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2 This file consists of firefox source files under "firefox" directory. Now we can copy this firefox and replace with the directory in /usr/lib/firefox
for that use this commands
$ su
< password >
# mv firefox* /usr/lib/
# cd /usr/lib
# tar -jxvf firefox*
# rm firefox*.bz2
Actual upgrade from package manager, doesn't takes us to the latest version. so this procedure helps to upgrade to newer version.
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so as for most things: package manager won't install the latest version, and of course, not a nightly builds. especially in thingies like debian lenny
Posted 02-02-2010 at 11:50 PM by Web31337 
