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November 8th, 2011, 01:01 GMT · By Marius Nestor
How to Install Firefox 8 in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 |
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The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) users how to install the newly released Mozilla Firefox 8 web browser.
At the request of many of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to guide them with the installation of the popular Mozilla Firefox 8 web browser in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating systems. Official 64-bit and 32-bit Mozilla Firefox 8.0 packages are now available for the following Ubuntu distributions: · Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) · Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) To install Mozilla Firefox 8 on your system follow the next step-by-step (with screenshots) tutorial. Step 1 - Add the Firefox 8 repository No matter what operating system you are running (Ubuntu 10.10 or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS), hit the ALT+F2 key combination on your keyboard, check the "Run in terminal" option and paste the following command in the "Run Application" dialog: gksu add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable  |
Enter your password when asked and hit the OK button. A terminal window will appear for a few seconds, and it will automatically close. Hit the ALT+F2 key combination again, check the "Run in terminal" option and paste the following command in the "Run Application" dialog:
gksu apt-get update
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Enter your password when asked and hit the OK button. A terminal window will appear for a few seconds, and it will automatically close.
Step 2 - Install Firefox 8
Hit the ALT+F2 key combination on your keyboard, check the "Run in terminal" option and paste the following command in the "Run Application" dialog:
sudo apt-get install firefox
A terminal window will appear. Enter your password when asked. When you will be asked if you want to install the Firefox 8 packages, type Y and hit the Enter key. Wait for the installation to finish and close the terminal window.
That's it! The new Mozilla Firefox 8 is now fully installed in your Ubuntu machine. You can start it from the Applications -> Internet menu.
| Firefox 8 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) |
In time, Mozilla Firefox 8 will automatically update to newer versions, so make sure you update your system regularly. If you have problems with the tutorial, do not hesitate to comment below!
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| Comment #1 by: :) on 08 Nov 2011, 18:08 UTC |  reply to this comment | there isn't a firefox 8 yet, still 7.0.1 |
| Comment #1.1 by: Marius Nestor on 08 Nov 2011, 19:15 GMT | Yes it is -> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Official-Firefox-8-and-Thunderbird-8-for-Linux-233227.shtml |
| Comment #1.2 by: TJG on 09 Nov 2011, 10:37 GMT | I'm not able to get firefox 8 with help of this tutorial. Only 7.0.1, so the first guy was correct |
| Comment #1.3 by: John Smith on 09 Nov 2011, 17:22 GMT | The packages for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 amd64 and i386 are still pending. They are not ready yet. See https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/+packages |
| Comment #1.4 by: Vimes on 10 Nov 2011, 07:45 GMT | Still 7.0.1!
8.0 is available only generic version from Mozilla.org
May be just have to wait day or two :) |
| Comment #1.5 by: Marius Nestor on 10 Nov 2011, 09:25 GMT | Yeah, it looks like there's a problem with publishing the packages. However, here they are:
For Ubuntu 10.10
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/+files/firefox_8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.1~mfs1_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/+files/firefox_8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.1~mfs1_amd64.deb
For Ubuntu 10.04
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/+files/firefox_8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1~mfs1_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/+files/firefox_8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1~mfs1_amd64.deb |
| Comment #2 by: mitchauer on 10 Nov 2011, 20:55 UTC | reply to this comment | [sudo] password for bob:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firefox is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
rpm2cpio debhelper m4 librpmio0 librpm0 rpm-common po-debconf xdotool
intltool-debian gettext cvs libvpx0 pax rpm librpmbuild0 bsd-mailx html2text
lsb-core libmail-sendmail-perl libopenjpeg2 alien ncurses-term
libsys-hostname-long-perl libfaac0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. |
| Comment #2.1 by: Dude on 12 Nov 2011, 04:46 GMT | Thanks for the information it's perfectly working :D |
| Comment #3 by: Gnu-Shoes on 12 Nov 2011, 16:10 UTC | reply to this comment | For all of the GUI-Only Linux Users, this is a very nice tutorial to install Firefox. Simply scroll, read, copy, and paste. REMEMBER to check the "Run in terminal" boxes when directed. Flawless install... Thank you! |
| Comment #4 by: Cancel on 12 Nov 2011, 23:41 UTC | reply to this comment | Nice tutorial :) working just fine. Added to favs |
| Comment #6 by: bgates on 14 Nov 2011, 15:33 UTC | reply to this comment | This is why linux will never take over microsoft. This is WAY too hard. |
| Comment #8 by: manoj awasthi on 17 Nov 2011, 13:44 UTC | reply to this comment | just now i have seen linex and got me download fire fox 8 finel for linux,please help me to download firfox8 final for linux, thanks you & good wishes. |
| Comment #10 by: scruffyeagle on 20 Nov 2011, 11:13 UTC | reply to this comment | Well written page. Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit, I was able to move quickly through all the steps without stumbles. My only reservation about this page, is that when the last step completed the terminal window closed - so, I wasn't able to read the contents to discover if I actually got all the recommended programs. |
| Comment #11 by: jogyLV on 28 Nov 2011, 16:58 UTC | reply to this comment | Totorial has wrong repository for 11.10.
You need to use command sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa |
| Comment #11.1 by: Marius Nestor on 29 Nov 2011, 13:17 GMT | That's because it's not intended for Ubuntu 11.10. As the title says, the tutorial can be used on Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Ubuntu 11.10 has Firefox 8 from the official mirrors, no guide needed :)
To install Firefox 9 in Ubuntu 11.10 use this tutorial:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Firefox-9-in-Ubuntu-11-10-and-11-04-235482.shtml |
| Comment #14 by: Frank on 09 Dec 2011, 13:58 UTC | reply to this comment | Almost as easy as in windoze. Linux has come a long way. However, I think it would be easier just to open the terminal window and run the commands in there, rather than pressing ALT-F2 all the time. |
| Comment #15 by: ArijitB on 10 Dec 2011, 10:22 UTC | reply to this comment | Thanks for this article, worked for me great....stuck ver 3.6 for a long time in Ubuntu 10.04. Again Thanks a Ton to the author of this article. |
| Comment #16 by: vance on 10 Dec 2011, 13:34 UTC | reply to this comment | Thanks a lot :o) greatest and most helpful site on the web today ...love it |
| Comment #17 by: joice joseph on 12 Dec 2011, 15:00 UTC | reply to this comment | excellent , it is working fine- joice mumbai |
| Comment #18 by: Biju on 16 Dec 2011, 08:19 UTC | reply to this comment | The article is very helpful in updating Firefox. Thank u
Biju |
| Comment #19 by: veeran on 16 Dec 2011, 18:24 UTC | reply to this comment | Thanks a lot.....one of the best tutorials for newbie's to ubuntu.. |
| Comment #20 by: AnjanaS on 20 Dec 2011, 18:05 UTC | reply to this comment | The tutorial is so accurate and quick. I could get my firefox upgraded from 3.6 to 8.0 very easily. Good one for a newbie. Thank you very much! |
| Comment #21 by: Jonas Thoms on 20 Dec 2011, 18:06 UTC | reply to this comment | Thanks for the instructions, but I think it would have been easier to just open a terminal session once and do the instructions sequentially.. |
| Comment #22 by: Taimi on 21 Dec 2011, 12:26 UTC | reply to this comment | Oh Man I have stuck with mozila fire fox installer that is showing in menu not the mozila browser |
| Comment #22.1 by: CsSpr on 27 Dec 2011, 21:20 GMT | Initial instructions worked great for me. |
| Comment #24 by: salar on 17 Jan 2012, 15:26 UTC | reply to this comment | Ilike your site.awesome.I need more softwear support from your site about my ubuntu10.04lts please.thank you.SOMETHING 2 TELL YOU.Iget firefox 9.0.1!!but it's good . |
| Comment #27 by: kdweeb on 02 Feb 2012, 05:56 UTC | reply to this comment | Thanks so much Synaptic package manager did not work for me. Accidentally came here. Cookies on the bottom shelf! I'm not a geek, but I can paste sudu strings where you tell me! Thanks muchly. |
| Comment #28 by: david on 19 Feb 2012, 18:11 UTC | reply to this comment | When I try the first step `gksu add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable', I get the error
Error: can't find signing_key_fingerprint at https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable |
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