need help installing firefox

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

On 7/7/06, misha cabanski <ibi_temp at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >From: "John DeCarlo" <johndecarlo at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions
> ><kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >Subject: Re: need help installing firefox
> >Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:39:29 -0400
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> >Well, it is hard to tell what may have happened to your system.
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> >But it already had Firefox installed.  So what you did us causing
> >confusion.
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> >I guess I would uninstall the Firefox you downloaded.
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> >Then I would uninstall the Ubuntu package for Firefox and reinstall it.
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> >sudo apt-get remove firefox
> >sudo apt-get install firefox
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> john,
> thank you for getting in touch, i tried your suggestion, and here's the
> result:
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> misha at misha-desktop:~$
> misha at misha-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove firefox
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package firefox is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> misha at misha-desktop:~$
> misha at misha-desktop:~$
> misha at misha-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> However the following packages replace it:
>   libnss3
> E: Package firefox has no installation candidate
> misha at misha-desktop:~$
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