[ALUG] firefox help

[Andreas Tauscher]

Am 12.03.2013 12:24, schrieb Edward Lunyangi:

Hi!

First: Please don't hijack threads.
New topic, new thread.

> Am running  ubuntu  8.04 on an old spec  laptop.
> 
> Please advice  on upgrading  firefox from v3 to  19, tried on software updates not available also  on  updater.

It stars already with one Problem: firefox 19 requires GTK+ 2.17 or
higer. Hardy is using GTK+ 2.0

> I managed to download  firefox-19.0.1.tar.bz2
> 
> tried changing home folder  and running  the file after extracting still not updating.
> 
> sudo mv Downloads/firefox /opt/ 
> cd /opt/firefox/
> ./firefox

You should get error messages about wrong versions and and and.

The hard way: Compile firefox on a system meeting the requirements
static linked. But the it will have an really huge memory footprint.

The easy way: Upgrade hardy.
sudo do-release-upgrade

Andreas