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By default OpenSuse 11.2 comes with Firefox 3.5.4 and when you run the upgrade you’ll end up having Firefox 3.5.8. However, as we all know there’s Firefox 3.6 available for sometime now. So I decided to update my Firefox to 3.6 on my OpenSuse machine. Following is what I did to upgrade to Firefox 3.6.

1. Open a terminal window and type the following command:

sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE\ 11.2\ Mozilla

Next type the following to upgrade to Firefox 3.6

zypper dup -r openSUSE\ 11.2\ Mozilla

With in a few minutes (depending on your Internet connection speed) Firefox 3.6 will be installed.

Happy browsing.

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This entry was posted by Vivek on March 2, 2010 at 11:59 am, and is filed under How-to, Linux, OpenSuse. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

BP

Thanks for the clear and easy instructions.
Vivek Kumar

Glad it worked for you!
Luciano

Ok, Thanks. I upgraded my Firefox correctly with your tip.
Thanks a lot.

Luciano Gomes
Vivek Kumar

Awesome!