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Installing and updating Firefox Developer via PPA aurora channel

Related: How do I install the Firefox Developer Edition? - it is just related, the question is not simple about how to install Firefox

So, I have added repo

ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora

but I can't install current developer version (53). I'm still running the stable (51) official version.

Even in synaptic I can't see 53 version package. Could it be because on ppa https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-aurora, next to every package it shows (I need package for 16.10):

Failed to build: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64e

If it is so, how do you recommend to proceed? Install manually and wait?

20.9.2017 - Edit

  • it looks like they started to update the channel again see comment https://askubuntu.com/a/936166/642778 bellow.

  • added a title for clearance: Basically because the problem is really not just "how to install Firefox". Yes, you can just download archive from the official FF web, decompress, run and FF will do self-auto updates.

But there are some people, who want the source code too, people who are updating their FF extensions, or people who cannot have allowed auto-updates or many other reasons...

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Try via Ubuntu Make

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install ubuntu-make
umake web firefox-dev

src: http://sourcedigit.com/20695-how-to-install-firefox-developer-edition-on-ubuntu-16-04/

Kevin Bowen
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Doug Twyman
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This ppa seems to be already deprecated (latest update was 3 months ago):

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-aurora

So I'm thinking there's no luck for installing through apt-get anymore. It needs to be downloaded manually from https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/

axelitus
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If you use ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa instead, then you can install 53.0a1 by installing the package firefox-trunk.

Mercury
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This PPA was updated on September 17, 2017 (with version 57.0b1), after 5 months of inactivity. It's kind of a weird release schedule but that's probably related to the changes in release channels which are described here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/simplifying-firefox-release-channels/

thevasya
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