Q. How do I install Firefox 3 web browser under Ubuntu Linux?
A. Firefox 3 can be installed easily using apt-get
command under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
Command to install Firefox 3 Final version Web browser
Open the terminal and type the following two commands to install firefox 3.0 final version:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0
Sample output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
xulrunner-1.9
Suggested packages:
firefox-3.0-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox-3.0 xulrunner-1.9
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 55 not upgraded.
Need to get 9845kB of archives.
After unpacking 27.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y How do I start Firefox 3?
Once installed click on Applications > Internet > Firefox Web Browser
8 comment
this is great but won’t this leave version 2.x still on my machine.
should I uninstall 2.x first or second?
Reason I ask is i want as many of my add-ons to migrate over as possible.
Thanks for the information though – it just shows how easy ubuntu is.
followed these instructions and still stuck with ff2, do i need to change the launcher icons somehow? how do i know if it actually installed?
What do you see when you go to Help > About?
The the launcher icons definitely fire up ff2. I found granparadiso installed in Synaptic Package Manager and removed it – I didn’t realise this was an alpha version of ff3 until I had done some reading up.
Now if I enter the terminal commands you’ve provided, granparadiso reappears. I assume I have to update or get rid of the packages somehow?
# apt-get install firefox-3.0
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
E: Couldn’t find package firefox-3.0
how to fix my problem? thanks
Update your system : sudo apt-get update
Now, run following command. It should/ will work.
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0
No Longer works
I get this;
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package firefox-3.0
[email protected]:~$