Tuesday, July 19, 2011

How to install Firefox Latest to Kubuntu / Ubuntu 10.04

Mozilla Firefox 5

Step 1: Open a new command shell (Teminal or a console) and add the firefox repo as 'sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable'
Output will be as follows

kasun@konkord:/home/kasun# sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg 
--trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg 
--keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21
gpg: requesting key CE49EC21 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key CE49EC21: public key "Launchpad PPA for Mozilla Team" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
kasun@konkord:/home/kasun#



Step 2: Update the repository by 'sudo apt-get update'

Step 3:  Install firefox with apt-get 'sudo apt-get install firefox'
Output will be as follows.

kasun@konkord:/home/kasun# sudo apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  firefox-globalmenu libstartup-notification0 libxcb-event1 python-gtk2 ubufox
  xul-ext-ubufox
Suggested packages:
  firefox-gnome-support firefox-kde-support latex-xft-fonts python-gtk2-doc
  python-numpy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox firefox-globalmenu libstartup-notification0 libxcb-event1
  python-gtk2 ubufox xul-ext-ubufox
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 180 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 36.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

Enter 'Y' at this point and enjoy new fox...

No comments: