HOW TO INSTALL MOZILLA FIREFOX 3.0 UNDER UBUNTU LINUX?
These instructions are tested under Ubuntu 7.10, but probabely they work on other versions of Ubuntu or other Linux distros, too.
Before starting, perhaps you’ll want to backup your ~/.mozilla folder, first. Just copy (drag-n-drop) it to any other folder.
So, open the Terminal or something similar, and type instructions given bellow one by one. After the first “sudo”, you’ll need the root password, so if you are not root or don’t know the root password, installation will not continue. Don’t type initial numbers 
1. sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
2. Download Mozilla Firefox 3.0 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and change the working directory to that where you saved the file (for example, if you saved to Desktop, then type: cd Desktop).
3. sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3.0.tar.bz2
4. cd /opt/firefox/plugins/
5. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/*
6. sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/firefox
7. sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
8. sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
9. sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
That’s all.
1 comment June 17th, 2008