Installing Firefox 3.6

[Tassidar]

Here's my story so far:
1. Add the mozilla daily ppa
2. Add the key
3. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox-3.6
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,060B of archives.
After this operation, 28.7kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  firefox-3.6
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main firefox-3.6 3.6+karmic [1,060B]
Fetched 1,060B in 1s (1,055B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package firefox-3.6.
(Reading database ... 140678 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox-3.6 (from .../firefox-3.6_3.6+karmic_all.deb) ...
Setting up firefox-3.6 (3.6+karmic) ...
timothy@timothy-Mecer:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Check in synaptic under firefox-3.6

This package is a transitional package and can safely be removed

However, I can see Firefox 3.7 in the repository.

Am I missing something?

 

[Mamajyot]

I installed 3.6 last night and I must say that I am impressed, especially the 1000's of themes are so cool!

 

[Centaur]

How I installed it, I downloaded the tar.bz2 from firefox's website.
Then I placed it in my home folder and ran this script (can't remember where I found it) in terminal:

if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/firefox ]]; then sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox; fi && if [[ -e ~/.mozilla ]]; then cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.backup; fi && sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3*.tar.bz2 -C /opt && rm firefox-3*.tar.bz2 && sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins.backup && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins && sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox && sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

It worked perfectly on Ubuntu.

 

[milomak]

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Compile_Firefox
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html