4. DIMENSION

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

COMMENTS & SPAM

Unfortunately, last few weeks this blog was under heavy attack of spammers. There were 5000 comments (read: spams) for the posts here.

Akismet (the spam protection for Wordpress) was not activated, so I had to delete all of them manualy.

I cleaned for 3 (three) days!!!

During this operation, I also deleted all the “normal” comments, as it was annoying to look on every single comment. It was hard to check 5000 comments just to keep very few normal ones.

Really, I don’t know what spammers think of, but who really clicks on the spam comments and who really buy something for real money from them??? They are just wasting their and our time and energy.

Stop spam forever!

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