How to install Firefox 3.6 in OpenSuse, Fedora and Ubuntu

Written on January 24th, 2010 at 00:52 am by shredder12

If you have not been sleeping for the last 2 days, you would know that Firefox 3.6 is out now. Because of its new amazing features and customizable capabilities, I am sure all of you would want to try it out badly. So, in this howto I will tell you how to install it in most of the popular Linux distros.

Lets begin with the all time favourite and most popular Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala.

Install Firefox 3.6 in Karmic, Jaunty, Intrepid, Hardy etc...

Firefox 3.6 is not available in the regular repos, so you will have to add the ppa manually. Enter the 2 lines in the file /etc/apt/sources.list

[shredder12]$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

If you are using another version, then replace karmic with its name. e.g jaunty for Ubuntu 9.04 , intrepid for 8.10, hardy for 8.04.

Run the update

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get update

Now, download and install the package firefox-3.6. Either click this link(in case it doesn't work, help) or enter this command in the terminal.

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Install Firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12

Dear Fellow Fedora users, Firefox 3.6 is not available in the repos beacuse its probably not ready for release to the Fedora community. But if you still want to give it a try you may try the rawhide repo.

[root]# yum --enablerepo=rawhide list firefox

You will see a similar output

firefox.i686                                 3.5.6-1.fc12
@updates                Available Packages
firefox.i686                                 3.6.1-0.11.rc2.fc13

Now, run the following command to install the latest firefox.

[root]# yum --enablerepo=rawhide install firefox

Install Firefox 3.6 in OpenSuse 11.2.

Opensuse users can find the latest versions of Mozilla Softwares here: Index of /repositories/mozilla You can easily browse through the software for your distro version and download and install the latest firefox browser.

5 Comments

Salvadesswaran Srinivasan (not verified)

January 31st, 2010 07:27 am

Firefox 3.6 is not in the official repos for Fedora 12, but you need not look to rawhide to install it. Remi Collet's repos do have the package for 3.6 and it works. you need to do: su -c 'rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/12/remi/i386/remi-release-12-5.fc12.remi.noarch.rpm' and then: su -c 'yum install firefox-3.6 -y' to install it :)

newbie (not verified)

February 9th, 2010 03:48 pm

Hi, Salva, I follow your comment but id not work. When i execute "su -c 'yum install firefox-3.6 -y' " I got "No package firefox-3.6 available. Nothing to do. Can you please update your commment Thanks

Svetoslav Batsoev (not verified)

February 3rd, 2010 12:31 am

Thank you

Anon Linuxer (not verified)

May 5th, 2010 12:57 am

i just installed fedora on my laptop,,,,,, more by accident than anything else, definately not by design, any im totllay totally new to linux, i know i will find out how to do it eventually .... not quite sure how to log into root yet, but i'll figure it out eventually,,,HOPEFULLY,,,mmmmmm but bloody hell installing a programme in linux wow,,, been looking nearly all day now, i,m sort of getting the hang of it,,, definately not installed firefox correctly,,, anyway i used to be one of those errm err well what shall i say a windows sort of person ,,,, just thought i'd have a ramble,,, by the way my letter c key on my laptop not working very well sorry,,, spot the errors,,, anyway i'll keep plugging away till i fix it or throw it through the window,,, bye for now... this my first post as linux user,,, yippeeee

Anon Linuxer (not verified)