Updating FireFox

[RAH]

Hello,

I'm currently running Arch Linux and can't find a way of updating to FireFox 3, it's not showing on the Arch website either. Also it appears to be called Bon Echo. I just want the normal version 3 x64. How do I go about this?

Thanks.

[axel]

I read somewhere in arch forums that the developer has a problem building firefox 3 xith xulrunner 1.9.

Anyway, you can still install Firefox3 from AUR. The easiest way is first to install yaourt (pacman -S yaourt) and then use it to install firefox 3 (yaourt -S firefox-official). in order to upgrade it later you should again use yaourt.

Read some stuff about AUR and yaourt to get a better idea.

In arch they have also changed Firefox's name and logos. The rest package is still the same from mozilla.

[oz]

You can also download this pkgbuild, unpack it into your /home/username directory, and then as regular user run:

makepkg -c

Then install the newly created Firefox 3 package with pacman by gaining root permissions then running:

pacman -U /home/username/filename

Simple, and quick!

Oh, and I personally prefer removing the Firefox 2 package from my system before installing FF3.

[oz]

Update...

Official Firefox 3.0 was added to the Arch 'extra' repo today.