firefox 3 rc3 install

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 17:17:20 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.
>
> Thanks, Mike

According to bug #237690 [1], nik is right: rc2 is the same as rc3 for linux, 
and rc2 is already in hardy-updates, so you can get it from the official 
ubuntu repository:

In software sources, click on the Updates tab, and make sure hardy-updates is 
selected. Then open Update-manager, check for and install the updates.

regards
FF

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/237690