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firefox

Welcome to PkgBase. We're going to help you install firefox. To start, find your distribution below.

Ubuntu

Install firefox

Click the button above to install firefox. To continue the installation, click "Yes" or "Install" on the dialog box that appears.

Problems?

Cannot Open Protocol / Unknown Protocol
  1. If you are not running Ubuntu 7.10+, make sure the package "apturl" is installed.
  2. In Konqueror & Epiphany, apturl support must be configured manually.
  3. Alternatively, download firefox from the Ubuntu Packages archive.
Can not find 'firefox'
  1. Make sure you have all of the necessary repositories enabled.
  2. You may have clicked on a bad link. If you typed this location in manually, please make sure you spelled the package name correctly.
An error occured
  1. You cancelled the install.
  2. The repository may be down. Please try again later.

Fedora

To install this package, type the following in a terminal as root:

yum install firefox

Problems?

Permission Denied

This simply means that you need to run the command as root. An alternative would be:

su -
yum install firefox

openSUSE

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Debian

To install this package, type the following into a terminal as root:

apt-get install firefox

If you have the "apturl" package installed, you can install firefox simply by clicking the link below:

Install firefox

Problems?

Permission Denied
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

This simply means that you need to run the command as root. An alternative would be:

su -
apt-get install firefox or sudo apt-get install firefox depending on your system configuration.

Gentoo

To install firefox, type the following into a terminal as root:

emerge firefox

Problems?

Permission Denied

You must run emerge as root:

su -
emerge firefox