Firefox 3.6 on Jaunty

Reading this italian post about installing FF3.6 on Ubuntu I finally found a way to install Namoroka easily on my jaunty.

Perhaps I had a couple problems...let's investigate!

First of all you need to update the software source list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

adding Mozilla's repositories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu jaunty main

Then just 2 easy steps:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Here came the pain ( to me ).

It went out that FF3.0 ( which was still installed, as the 3.5, in my Jaunty ) was sharing the file /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop with the upcoming 3.6 version, so I couldn't install the new version.

I had to backup .mozilla to save bookmarks, history and related stuff, uninstall every FF installation and the re-install FF3.6:

sudo mv /home/odino/.mozilla /home/odino/mozilla.backup
sudo apt-get remove firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.5 firefox-3.6
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6
cd /home/odino/.mozilla
sudo mv firefox-3.5.abandoned firefox-3.5

then I just started firefox 3.6 which asked me if I wanted to import settings from the 3.5 version: just said yes and the magic has happened!