Just in terminal type: sudo apt-cache search firefox<br><br>It will display all the packages with word firefox<br><br><br>Donatas<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Lawrence Tsang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tkwinfo@gmail.com">tkwinfo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Donatas and All,<br><br> Thanks for your suggestion. <br><br> But how could I know the package name for my firefox 3.0.17 software ? Any Ubuntu application or command that I could use ?<br>
<br>Regards<br>Lawrence<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Donatas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fetdonatas@gmail.com" target="_blank">fetdonatas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You can update all of your sources, and do just the package upgrade, not the distro upgrade. In this way you will stay with Hardy and will use new software. To upgrade specified package use <b>apt-get install -u package_name</b><br>
<br>regards,<br>Donatas<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tsang Kim Wai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tkwinfo@gmail.com" target="_blank">tkwinfo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br><br> I am a newbie in Ubuntu who uses the 8.04 (Hardy) version. I find that my firefox is of version 3.0.17 and I want to install a newer version of it. I think that Ubuntu 9.10 may have packaged firefox with a newer version.<br>
<br> If I want to stay in Hardy, could I use "apt-get" to just install some packages in the Ubuntu 9.10 repository ? Is there anything that I could edit in the "/etc/apt/source.list" file so as to just fetch and install some packages in Ubuntu 9.10 ? Or are there other ways that I could install newer version of some of my installed packages ?<br>
<br> The following is the listing of my "/etc/apt/sources.list" file :<br><br>deb <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</a> gutsy partner<br>deb-src <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</a> gutsy partner<br>
deb <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy main universe restricted multiverse<br>deb-src <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy main universe restricted multiverse<br>
deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy-security universe main multiverse restricted<br>deb-src <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy-security universe main multiverse restricted<br>
deb <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted<br>deb-src <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted<br>
<br> Any suggestion.<br><br>Regards<br>Lawrence<br><br>
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