The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) users how to install the newly released Mozilla Firefox 8 web browser.
At the request of many of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to guide them with the installation of the popular Mozilla Firefox 8 web browser in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating systems.
Official 64-bit and 32-bit Mozilla Firefox 8.0 packages are now available for the following Ubuntu distributions:
· Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
· Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
To install Mozilla Firefox 8 on your system follow the next step-by-step tutorial.
Step 1 - Add the Firefox 8 repository
No matter what operating system you are running (Ubuntu 10.10 or Ubuntu
10.04 LTS), hit the ALT+F2(Type in terminal) key combination on your keyboard, check the
"Run in terminal" option and paste the following command in the "Run
Application" dialog:
gksu add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
Enter your password when asked and hit the OK
button. A terminal window will appear for a few seconds, and it will
automatically close. Hit the ALT+F2 key combination again, check the
"Run in terminal" option and paste the following command in the "Run
Application" dialog:
gksu apt-get update
Step 2 - Install Firefox 8
Hit the ALT+F2 key combination on your keyboard, check the "Run in terminal" option and paste the following command in the "Run Application" dialog:
sudo apt-get install firefox
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