How to install Firefox 3.6 in OpenSuse, Fedora and Ubuntu

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.