This is part of a tutorial on running Aptana on Ubuntu 8.10 but it seems alot of people where using the article to try and get Firefox 2 running on Ubuntu 8.10, so I thought I would give it, it’s own page.
Step 1: Install Firefox 2 on Ubuntu 8.10
The theory here is simple. Change your package sources to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) ones, which make Firefox 2 available, install Firefox 2, and then revert your package sources.
Back up our existing source list to make it easy to revert later.
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.original
Create a new package source list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Paste the following list of package sources into this new file and save and close it.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe restricted multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security universe main multiverse restricted deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
Update using the new (well technically old) package source and install Firefox Two.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox-2
Step 2: Cleaning up the mess and getting the system back to usable
Copy back our original package source list
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.original /etc/apt/sources.list
Update your package sources for next time.
sudo apt-get update
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I hav been trying 2 get firefox 2 for my intrepid but failed….until i found this. Thx man !
thanks a lot man, that was super useful. Firefox 3 seemed to be kinda finicky, perhaps i will try it again later when the bugs have been worked out, but until then i’ll stick with firefox-2
Exactly what I needed! Thanks!!!
thanks. no other solution worked.
yep. another "thank you" mate…..does anyone know why firefox2 isn't in the 8.10 repos ?
Thanks, it was extremely helpful.
Yet another "just what I needed" — thanks!
Another option might be to download a linux binary from here
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.ht...
WORKED! Thanks so much. Yes, nothing worked before this. I was online forever searching for a solution. You are a genius.
I agree with what you have to say…..