Installing Firefox on Ubuntu 7.x

Posted by Nessa | Posted in , | Posted on 02-06-2008

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I still haven’t upgraded my PC to Ubuntu 8, so I was really depressed to find out that Ubuntu 7.10 stopped at Firefox 2 and wasn’t going to be offering version 3.  I’m the laziest person on the face of the earth so I wasn’t looking forward to doing this manually, but here’s how I installed Firefox 3:

Download the Linux tarball from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2

sudo cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozillabackup

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

cd /opt/firefox/plugins/

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/* .

sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/firefox

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

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Comments (7)

shelby said on 05-08-2008

Why is it that you haven’t updated to 8.04 again? I think it works great I have updated both of my machines to it. And updated os = less exploits, more fixes etc… there is a reason to update ;)
Nessa said on 05-08-2008

I stated in a previous post why I haven’t upgraded — 8.04 is not compatible with the hardware of my new PC
Multi-Monitor Comput said on 11-08-2008

Awesome! I’ve been wanting to do this! Thanks for posting this great info. I love your blog!
shelby said on 13-08-2008

What hardware does 8.04 not support on your setup? I find that odd as I have had no issues with any of my machines when I have installed 8.04.
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Garry said on 11-10-2008

I upgraded my ThinkPad T61 to Ubuntu 8.04.1 a couple months ago. Very glad I did. Everything worked fine and I get things like Firefox 3, newer kernel, better fingerprint reader support, better WiFi drivers, and more. Highly recommended.
ScottW said on 20-02-2009

I know this post is a tad old but I have a 12 year old machine that is currently running a triple-boot option of Fedora Core 9, openSUSE 11 and Xubuntu 8.10. All 3 distros work just fine on the older hardware with no issues to date. I also have a Lenovo H210 that I wiped Vista from and installed Linux Mint 6 which I like better than the others.

Glad to know you’re a Linux lover too. After dealing with servers all day, why use anything else? ;)

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