Windam Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 (edited) I'm having trouble trying to update firefox 3 b5 to RC1 I downloaded the tar.gz file but I don't know how to go about updating and replacing my current installation through terminal. ty edit: I forgot to mention I'm running Hardy Heron Edited June 3, 2008 by Windam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted June 3, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 3, 2008 Unless there is some must have fix or feature that is only available in the RC1, I would just let your package manager handle the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Distro? if fedora http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/05/17/Firefox-3-RC1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windam Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Unless there is some must have fix or feature that is only available in the RC1, I would just let your package manager handle the update. Well I heard there was dramatic changes regarding stability when handling flash files because beta 5 likes to crash when it loads up flash content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Distro?if fedora http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/05/17/Firefox-3-RC1 Distro is obviously Ubuntu, hence the 'Hardy Heron' in the original post. You can run your new version of Firefox without replacing the old version, by simply extracting it to a folder and running the executable... How you actually do a proper update, I'm unsure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windam Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Distro is obviously Ubuntu, hence the 'Hardy Heron' in the original post.You can run your new version of Firefox without replacing the old version, by simply extracting it to a folder and running the executable... How you actually do a proper update, I'm unsure. yeah I've tried that before. It feels a bit out of place if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted June 4, 2008 Subscriber¹ Share Posted June 4, 2008 You could use this PPA. https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive As for the flash problem it's not really firefox that's the problem but the flash plugin, try the newest flash. You can find instructions for getting it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 It's in Hardy-Proposed. Just enable it in Software Sources and apt-get update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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