Installing Firefox 1.5

[< CeeTee >]

You can always refer to this wiki to install FF 1.5

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion

CeeTee

On 2/10/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> >On 2/9/06, Javier <javiermon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>You can download the tar.gz file from firefox's web site. Then
> >>decompress it to a local folder (for example /urs/local/). You will
> >>need to install libstdc++5 (it's in the repo).
> >>
> >>On 2/9/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Just installed Kubuntu 5.10 but I've used Fedora for about a year. I
> >>>want to install Firefox 1.5 but get-apt has only 1.0.7. Is there an
> >>>alternative to downloading the rpm from getfirefox.com? For that
> >>>matter, how are rpm's in debian based systems? Should I get used to
> >>>something else?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in advance for assistance.
> >>>
> >>>Dotan Cohen
> >>>http://technology-sleuth.com/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >Thanks. Would  you recommend apt-get or yum for installing libstdc?
> >What is the command for it?
> >
> >
> >
> Dotan,
>
> Forget yum in [K]Ubuntu.  As a Debian-based system learn to use apt.  It
> is your new friend.  You can use synaptic/kynaptic (I think the latter
> is not ready for prime time) or just
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install <package>
>
> First, make sure your sources list is what you want it to be
>
>     * man sources.list, then
>     * http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic (I suggest merging this
>       generated sources.list with the one you have in
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>
>
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