How to install the latest version of Firefox by adding a repository to the sources list and installing the PPA GPG Key
At the time of this writing, I was using Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 Karmic
Add the following two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list,
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Can be done easily with the following two commands,
$ sudo echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Then add the following PPA GPG key,
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247510BE
At the time of this writing, Firefox 3.6 had just came out, so to install 3.6, do the following,
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6
Issues
Since 3.5 was already installed, for some reason I had to uninstall it first,
$ sudo apt-get remove firefox
And it left /usr/bin/firefox in place which was now 3.6. Now running firefox opened 3.6.
This version in Ubuntu is called Namoroka.
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