firefox 3 rc3 install

[Mike Adolf]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> 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
>
>   
I am up to date and synaptic shows rc2. If you read my reply to Nik, 
you'll see what my down load problem is. Maybe it is not firefox.

Thanks for your reply.
Mike