How to install firefox 4 in ubuntu using PPA
This tutorial is going to explain how to install firefox 4 in ubuntu using PPA
You can check here what is new in firefox 4 from here
Install firefox 4 using GUI
Go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center from the top panel go to Edit > Software Sources and click the ‘Other Software’ tab.Press ‘Add’ button and then paste the following line
ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
After adding the PPA you will be prompted to update your sources.
Once the update is done you can head to System > Administration > Update Manager to perform an upgrade.
Install firefox 4 using terminal
Go to Applications > Terminal in the terminal just enter the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Hey, thanks a lot. Just open your terminal and paste. Couldn’t have been easier. Thanks loads.
great, simple and painless! Thanks!
I was already coming from 4.0b13pre(2011-03-22) and that helps.
But: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15pre) Gecko/20110207 Lightning/1.0b2 Shredder/3.1.9pre was/is a part of the daily build PPA. Now what happens with TBird and Lightning? Just wait for “final” versions?
Thanks!
Thank you 🙂
I thought Canonical stated last year that Ubuntu would now be updated to the latest Firefox milestone via the repos as well as point release security updates. I know I remember reading that announcement. Does anyone else recall this?
josir@media35:~$ uname -a
Linux media35 2.6.32-29-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 19:00:09 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Hi folks, trying to add the repository, I got:
josir@media35:~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
Error reading https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable:
Some tip to solve it?
Thank you very much. I’m new in ubuntu, but I really like it very much. It’s a bit difficult sometimes, as I came from the Microsoft OS, but it’s just the begining.
Thank you very much one more time.
Kirk M: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1700967
I has some problem when using update manager, I has get this error:
W:GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 6E871C4A881574DE, W:GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 464AD83D4631BBEA, W:Failed to fetch http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/dists/stable/non-free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
, E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Using terminal:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 6E871C4A881574DE
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 464AD83D4631BBEA
W: Failed to fetch http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/dists/stable/non-free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
thanks, it work!!!!
Thanks a lot. Cheers.
@Peter – Thanks very much for the link. Much appreciated.
Nope, still 3.6. Does not upgrade to 4. This merely updates your installed version of 4, so the title is a lie.
An error occurred
Give the following details:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_partner_binary-i386_Packages)
Thanks for the information! No Luck here though. 🙁
Followed the instucts. Last command sudo apt-get upgrade “Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.”
This is a dual boot machinator. Firefox 4 already on Windosw7.
It WORKED!!! Dummy here! Forgot to restart Firefox.
Thanks again for the information.
Sorry guys, I made step-by-step,…. exactly. And nothing happen. FireFox don’t upgrade. Even in terminal I try…. 🙁 maybe someone know what I mast to do. Thanks
Works great, thanks for the help!
Does this works on a 64bit AMD PhenomII x4 ?
Tanks in advance
Yes Cali, it works fine
We’re on ff 8 now, any ideas how to go back to v7 (or older)? The usual method of version selection doesn’t seem to work, I’ve tried “apt-get install firefox=7.0”
Cheers 🙂