[nylug-talk] Ubuntu Edgy Firefox update

[Ron Guerin]

George Bourozikas wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 13:17, anthonyriga wrote:
>> Im new user of Ubuntu but still run Fed 5 too. I want
>> to update Firefox to get latest security fixes but
>> noticed that after running sudo firerox as root the
>> check for updates are disabled . Normally in Fed I run
>> as root and then do the updates but Ubuntu does not
>> allow this.
>>
>> How do you do the updates for firefox with out having
>> to reload and save profiles etc? Not in mood to
>> rebuild FF evertime there is an update... Suggestions?
> 
> Assuming your /etc/apt/sources.list is correct (it should be after a 
> standard installation) all you need to do is:
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade 
> 
> or, possibly
> 
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I suspect that Ubuntu's packages have the internal Firefox update
feature disabled, because you generally don't want software stepping
outside your package management system.

- Ron