You can always refer to this wiki to install FF 1.5 <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion</a> CeeTee <div>On 2/10/06, Art Alexion <<a href="mailto:art.alexion@verizon.net">art.alexion@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dotan Cohen wrote: >On 2/9/06, Javier <<a href="mailto:javiermon@gmail.com">javiermon@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> 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 <a href="http://getfirefox.com">getfirefox.com </a>? 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 >>><a href="http://technology-sleuth.com/">http://technology-sleuth.com/</a> >>> >>> >>> > >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 * <a href="http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic">http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic</a> (I suggest merging this generated sources.list with the one you have in /etc/apt/sources.list -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ <a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html">http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html</a> Key for signed PDFs available at <a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c"> http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c</a> The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Email message scanned by Norton Antivirus No virus found in email ----------------------------------------------------------------