firefox 3 rc3 install

[nik gare]

Mike Adolf wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am having problems with Firefox as bundled with Ubuntu 8.04.  To fix I 
> downloaded rc3, but can't figure how to install it.  I had expected a 
> configure.sh file, but their is none.  After un-taring, the directory 
> contains all the .so files and firefox binary.  I can run it locally 
> from the directory.  When I did, it ask me to accept the license. I 
> would like to have it installed in /usr and all the .so in the right 
> place.  I would be great if apt-get could also recognize that it is 
> installed. Maybe I need to build my own .deb file--I hope not! Any 
> ideas?  BTW, rc3 seems to fix the downloading problems I was having with 
> Ubuntu version.

Firefox 3 rc2 is available from the repos, just add this line to your 
sources.list

http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu hardy main

rc2 is I think the same as rc3 for the Linux version.

Nik