Comments on: Manually Installing The Latest Firefox in Kubuntu : A Cleaner Installation

By: Will Mellon

Will Mellon — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:11:31 +0000

I think I’m missing something, because my KDE system, through Adept, will not allow me to install anything beyond the 3.0 firefox. And I have no clue what I’m supposed to do with the code listed in this article. Can you help?

By: z_mikowski

z_mikowski — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:02:45 +0000

This takes care of it all:

sudo apt-get install firefox –no-install-recommends

See man apt-get and search for “recommended” for more details.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:21:14 +0000

To those of you that claim the Firefox from mozilla will have the same dependencies built in… you clearly didn’t pay attention to what you installed. When marking Firefox for installation, it automatically marks the following packages for install which are surely not in the mozilla binary:

Synaptic
gnome-keyring
libgnomevfs2-0
libgnome2-0
scrollkeeper
gnome-mount

and many more.

These are absurd dependencies for a web browser. Why the hell would you need Synaptic package manager to run firefox?

By: misha

misha — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:46:11 +0000

o sorry i forget it was after installation

By: misha

misha — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:45:09 +0000

Flagfox version 3.3.5
Detected Firefox version 3+ using locale en-US

ERROR MESSAGE: Flagfox failed to load!

EXCEPTION THROWN: Could not load country names

OPTIONS: customlookup.enabled=false; customlookup.name=Google; customlookup.url=http://www.google.com/search?q=site:{domainName}; middleclick=Whois; openlinksin=tabFG; position.bar=addressbar; position.side=R; usealticons=false; warn.proxy=true; warn.tld=false; warn.updates=true;

USER AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111317 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.4

By: marco

marco — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:53:58 +0000

I just installed Firefox on kubuntu 7.10, everything went fine until the fifth step, i can’t get vim to save Firefox.desktop. i only get a swap file, could you explain that step a little more?
Thanks in advance

By: James

James — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:32:26 +0000

Just installed firefox using “sudo apt-get install firefox” on a hardy 8.0 lamp server from the command line. Everything seemed to work thru, but when I type in firefox at the command prompt I get Error: no display specified. Can someone please help.

Thanks in advance

By: Cosimo Giosa

Cosimo Giosa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:59:06 +0000

ho provato a installare Firefox seguendo le istruzioni, ma non ci sono riuscito.
non esiste un pacchetto autoinstallante, x Kubuntu 7.1???

By: Daniel Burgess

Daniel Burgess — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:32:56 +0000

Sorry, but I still cannot install it.

When I used “sudo apt-get install firefox”, I get only this message:

“E: Type ‘home/Documents/firefox/firefox’ is not known on line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read”

When I typed “sudo tar -C /opt/ -zxvf firefox-*.tar.gz”, the second part of the text, I got

“tar: firefox-*.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors”

Even now, I cannot install the Mozilla I downloaded.

How do I install a copy of Mozilla on my Kubuntu? Thanks a lot.

By: TimoX

TimoX — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:52:21 +0000

Shouldnt it be “2. sudo tar -C /opt/ -jxvf firefox-*.tar.bz2″?
-Firefox gives out Bz2 files, not .gz

..and step 5 needs some further configuration, it doesnt put Firefox shortcut on desktop nor in the menu.(Im guessing username to be filled in, but Im a fresh convert from Windows..)