Disable the installation of the latest firefox version for ubuntu that provides upgrade and updates.

For a few reasons, I chose to use ubuntu8.04 in my notebook (old antique in:

1. The recent 12.04 use of unity really made my old antiques unable to run, and it was quite slow to run, so I thought of switching to a lower version.

2. Although 8.04 is not supported, 10.04 is much better than it, but I decided to use 8.04 for nostalgia, which is the first Ubuntu version I came into contact.

 

 

8.04 is no longer supported, so many software cannot use the latest version. For example, in Firefox, the system has been updated to version 3.6, which is too old. I want to use the latest 16, so we have the following:

1. First download the latest Firefox linuxplatform package from the Firefox official website, and download it to firefox-latest.tar.bz2.

2. decompress the package to the local device and run the following command on the terminal: sudo tar-xvf Firefox-latest.tar.bz2 to get a Firefox folder.

3. To facilitate management (depending on your habits), move the folder to the/OPT folder. The terminal command is as follows:

Sudo MV Firefox/OPT

4. If you directly run firefox in the folder, the old version of Firefox will pop up. For convenience, you need to change the point of/usr/bin/Firefox, back up the file first. The terminal command is as follows:

Sudo mV/usr/bin/Firefox-old

Then create a new file. The terminal command is as follows:

Sudo ln-S/opt/Firefox/usr/bin/Firefox

 

Now, log out. Your firefox version is the latest.

Original article from-yilai.com