upgrading to firefox 1.0 through apt?

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 23:27:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:16:41 -0500, tiiim <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> wallijonn Wrote:
> > You will need to first install through SPM -> libpng3
> >
> > To install DOM, you'll need to install through SPM ->
> > liblinc1
> > libbonobo-activation
> > libbonobo-activation4
> >
> > Then you can "dpkg -i" the Debian packages.
> unless ur of cause one of us ppc users in which case u either need to
> use the hoary sources or google around to find a ppc deb version! If
> you end up going to firefox site on the ppc it thinks ur a pc not good
> for installing.... i personally just waiting for either a backport ppc
> version or maybe use hoary for it but still thinking its not a rush the
> next release of Ubuntu will be soon.
I'm not sure if this was mentioned before or not.. but there is a much
easier way to do this.. use the backports project..
add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net/ubuntu warty-backports main universe

then update and upgrade though either apt-get or synaptic..

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Ubuntu Warty 4.10




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