Why doesn't Firefox from Canonical get updated?

[Chris]

On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 12:26 +1100, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/10/16 12:14, Chris wrote:
> > I'm still on version 49.0. I received an email today from US CERT
> > that
> > 49.0.2 is out. I would think I at least need to update to 49.0.1
> > from
> > Canonical but Synaptic shows no updates available. The version I
> > have
> > installed is
> > 
> > chris at localhost:/var/log$ apt-cache policy firefox
> > firefox:
> >   Installed: 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
> >   Candidate: 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
> >   Version table:
> >  *** 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
> >         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main
> > amd64 Packages
> >         500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main
> > amd64 Packages
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >      45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500
> >         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
> > Packages
> > 
> > 
> > 
>  you could try ubuntuzilla
> It is recommended that you use the ubuntuzilla repository rather than
> download individual files. 
> 
> Read the instructions on the project website, http://ubuntuzilla.sour
> ceforge.net/ for details.
> sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
> C1289A29
> 
> 
> echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/m
> ozilla/apt all main" \
> | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null 
> 
> but be aware you will be some what on the bleeding edge
> 
Thanks Francis, worked fine

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Chris
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