HOW TO: Install FireFox 1.0 from the Backports Project

[Eklöf]

How do I get FF and TB 1.0 when using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu. I get errors when using this backport.

[pseudonym]

Thanks for the tip. Once you've added the backports repository and done an apt-get update, shouldn't it be sudo apt-get upgrade rather than install? (assuming you have both Firefox and Thunderbird already installed, of course) I did apt-get upgrade and found that 2 packages had holds on them - hotplug and mozilla-thunderbird. I have no idea why (I did apt-get check and they are both OK). Can you have problems if you override a hold?

[clparker]

In this walkthrough should I recomend to people they remove the line from the sources file once the update has been made?

[pseudonym]

Just found a German version of this howto that users in various non-English locales will find extra helpful. If you read German go to http://www.ubuntuusers.de/wiki/inter...x_installieren . For those who don't, it's basically the same as this one only you add a different repository to /etc/apt/sources.list . You can obtain Firefox 1.0 and (at time of writing) 1.0-compatible localisation packs for German, French, Japanese, Catalan, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Turkish, and Polish, plus some package which is supposed to integrate FF 1.0 better into Gnome (which I haven't tried yet).

Follow clparker's steps, but INSTEAD OF the backports repository, use this one -

deb http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ut8g/ubuntu/ warty-updates main universe

Once you've installed FF I guess you could add the backports one, but I would say it's definitely safer to not have them both in your sources.list at once when you do apt-get update (though this is not based on any technical know-how, just what seems like commonsense).

I installed FF 1.0 plus German localisation from here, and everything is running sweetly. I had problems upgrading FF 0.93 to 1.0 via backports repository-the German pack plus the language switcher for 1.0 which I got separately from Mozilla failed to work properly. So I uninstalled 0.93 and started over. However, had I known about the German repository I probably would not have had to do anything this drastic, instead just grab the German localisation from it.

But it's all over now. I'm a happy camper again.

PS. clparker, maybe edit your original howto post with relevant details from my one here?

[jdong]

I'm sorry... I'll get locales in soon for Thunderbird and Firefox.

[Eejay]

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[rufius]

I'll look into a backport of nicotine for you.

[jdong]

I'm sorry... I'll get locales in soon for Thunderbird and Firefox.

All Firefox locales are compiled & marked STABLE...

Thunderbird locales are coming along.