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How To: Install Latest firefox Using apt-get command

January 28th, 2010 oDx Leave a comment Go to comments

Previously I had posted an article on how to install latest firefox, but it was not even a standard install procedure, and so do it have lots of issues. Now today i found one way to install Latest version of firefox using “apt-get” command, which is indeed a standard installation procedure in Ubuntu.

So here it Goes:

If you are using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) or later:

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is

deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

and you can use the following command to add it to your sources.list in one step:

echo -e “ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

If you are using Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) or earlier (due to a bug in apt):

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is

deb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

and you can use the following command to add it to your sources.list in one step:

echo -e “ndeb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

Then add the package signing key to your keyring,

by running the following command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

Update your package database:

sudo apt-get update

Install your desired package, with one of the following commands:

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Now goes another reason for using these steps, You can install both thunderbird and seamonkey aprt from firefox.

To install them issue the following commands.

sudo apt-get install thunderbird-mozilla-build

sudo apt-get install seamonkey-mozilla-build


Full credit: RiotingPacifist -[Freenode] #ubuntu
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