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I recently got a live cd off of a friend for Ubuntu. I like everything about it and installed the OS. The only thing is that it's an older version ...
  1. 05-12-2008 #1
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    Problems WIth Installing

    I recently got a live cd off of a friend for Ubuntu. I like everything about it and installed the OS. The only thing is that it's an older version of Ubuntu(6.06) and came with an older version of Firefox.

    I wanted to install the new version, but I have no idea of where to begin. Could you please help?
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    You can do it by typing
    Code:
    gksudo firefox
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    Since Mozilla upgrades firefox frequently (at least every month) with security patches or new feature-based releases. here is a nice stuff that allows you to get the latest firefox automatically
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    I installed the right package, but I got this message:
    Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libnotify-bin.
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    You have to install libnotify-bin.
    If you run an intel X86 machine you can get the package here else if you run an AMD64 machine you can get it here
    Hope it helps. Let me know how it goes.
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    Why don't you upgrade it to ubuntu 8.04 or make a clean install? It has new features and updated programs. It is easier overall to use as well. To upgrade it from internet go to Upgrading your existing Ubuntu installation | Ubuntu
    The proccess is really easy if you follow the steps it mentions, but you should have a fast internet connection of at least a few MB/s. If you have not made a lot of customizations to your system you could do a clean install which will require much less time. (clean install <30 minutes, internet upgrade with 20mbps line took about 2 hours).
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    I actually did upgrade.
    After I wasn't able to just install firefox, I just figured I'd upgrade everything and get the newest firefox with a new Ubuntu.
    Thank you everyone for all of your help though.
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