Hey all,

I just installed Ubuntu amd64 version on my new computer. It comes with firefox 0.9.3. I'd like to update to the latest version, but I don't see it in the repository and the installer from mozilla.org gives me the following error:

Thanks in advanced for any advice you can offer.
the_padawan

You need to install the missing package using apt-get e.g. "apt-get install libgtk-x11".

Or better still, upgrade to hoary - search the wiki or www.ubuntuguide.org
But, hoary has firefox 1 and not 1.0.1

first open synaptic and in tools -> repository uncheck all of them
then press ok then reload

u will now be able to download firefox 0.9.3 , if u want 1.0

then type :
sudo kedit /etc/apt/sources.list
<your password>
then add this line in the end
deb http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net/ubuntu/ warty-backports main universe
then save , open synaptic and press reload
u will now have firefox 1.0 in synaptic

Well, firefox in hoary is update to 1.0.1 so enjoy!

Thats great news, I was beginning to wonder whether they were going to ship 1.0 instead if 1.0.1.

Woah ok.

I decided to update to hoary and followed the instructions on the wiki page. After the dist-upgrade was completed I rebooted and after the regular login found myself at the terminal.

I tried sudo X, it put me in a place with a grey background and a mouse in the shape of an X. ctrl+alt+backspace gave me back the terminal, so I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade -f.

That got me back to gnome, but my screen resolution is god awful (640x480) and the options for better resolutions are not available in the screen resolution preference dialog.

Anyone else deal with this problem?

In case it matters, my graphics card is an nvidia geforce 5500

My system just freezes everytime I try and use GNOME, so I guess there are still some issues that need sorting out.

I did a bit of googling. Other people with this problem were able to resolve it by running sudo dpkg xorg-xserver. For me, xorg-xserver does not exist.

I have some work I need to do so for now I'm back on my winXP machine. I'll give it another crack either later today or tomorrow.

the_padawan

Well, I've deleted Ubuntu for now because I need to install testing distros onto a seperate machine but when I reinstall, I am going to try what you suggested if the same problem happens again.

I think that even if they had 'shipped' 1.0, 1.0.1 would have come out pretty quickly in hoary-security, since the upgrade to 1.0.1 was to fix a couple of security holes and didn't change functionality. This is my understanding of the Ubuntu policy anyway.

A 'stable' release means that the only 'upgrades' that are offered are security patches. This gives the users 'stability' over the life cycle of any particular release. (Canonical support releases, with security patches for 1.5 yrs IIRC.)

Daniel

You didn't need to upgrade to Hoary. There is a "warty-backports" repository that you can add to get Firefox 1.0 among other new stuff.

If you use firefox-installer rather than the firefox-installer.bin you may bet better results.