firefox 4.0

[Ralph Janke]

  Probably not. I have no idea what has been downloaded. If it
is the sources, they need to be build first.

If it is binaries, I would not know for which Linux distro, kernel, libc 
etc it was build.

Furthermore, we do not know if all libraries that FF4 depends on are 
already
installed.

The safest way to install software on an Ubuntu system is to use 
packages that
are build against the particular Ubuntu release is to use the official
archives, or a launchpad ppa where you can find packages before they are
officially released for instance.

The package manager will then ensure that all dependencies that are missing
are installed too, and that the binaries are build against the right 
libraries.

-Ralph

On 03/25/2011 10:06 AM, Chris wrote:
> Can you not right click on the file and run with....  (Drawing a blank 
> here?)
> Thats what I do.
> I don't use extract
> Chris.
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:txwikinger at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     As Darcy said:
>
>>     Here's an explanation on how to do that:
>>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/6339/how-do-i-install-firefox-4/612
>>
>>     Darcy.
>
>     Which explains
>
>>     Firefox 4.0 is available for 10.10 and 10.04.
>>
>>     Go to Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center -> Edit (Menu) ->
>>     Software Sources -> Other Software (tab) -> Add and then paste
>>     |ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable| and then perform an upgrade.
>>
>>     Or you can just use the command line method for installing it:
>>
>>     |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
>>     sudo apt-get update&&  sudo apt-get upgrade
>>     |
>     -Ralph
>
>
>     On 03/25/2011 09:52 AM, raymond house wrote:
>>     Thanks Ralph, launchpad ppa ??
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Ralph Janke
>>     <txwikinger at ubuntu.com <mailto:txwikinger at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>>
>>          You should rather use Firefox from the launchpad ppa than
>>         downloading a non-packaged version of it.
>>
>>
>>         On 03/25/2011 09:42 AM, raymond house wrote:
>>
>>             Hi everyone, I'm trying to put Firefox 4.0 in the
>>             computer,I have downloaded it and it opens all the files
>>             in the archive manager but then I don't know what to do
>>             with it, how do I get it to replace 3.6 that I have now??
>>             thanks.
>>
>>
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