Installing Firefox 3.6 into Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

If you are like me and constantly want the latest version of everything in your Ubuntu installation, you will most probably want to install Firefox 3.6 into your Ubuntu installation. You first have the add in the Mozilla Team's firefox-stable repository by typing the following in a terminal shell:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

Once you have that entry in your source.list file, you will need to update the available installers with the command:

sudo apt-get update

Now you can simply get firefox 3.6 installed with the command:

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Warning, this will remove your current installation of Firefox.

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If you are a Jaunty, Intrepid or Hardy user, you will need to edit the source.list file by typing the following into the terminal shell:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

You then need to add in the following two lines at the end of the file:

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

Remember to replace the name BUILDNAME, with jaunty, intrepid or hardy (depending on which version of Ubuntu you have installed).

You will then need to import the correct public key so that Ubuntu will trust the repository. To do that, please read my earlier post on Getting the public key of a Ubuntu repository.

Again, once you have done the above, you will need to issue the command for Ubuntu to update and install the repository data and install Firefox 3.6:

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

You now have Firefox 3.6 installed. :)

Installing Metasploit 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04...

If you want to use Metasploit, you will need to install this program manually as it is not found in Ubuntu's repository (feel free to correct me on this).

You will first need to install the following libraries from Ubuntu's repositories:

sudo apt-get install subversion ruby libruby rdoc libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby
sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby libdl-ruby libreadline-ruby
sudo apt-get install libiconv-ruby rubygems libgtk2-ruby libglade2-ruby

You will then need to download Metasploit 3.2 from the Metasploit website at URL:

http://spool.metasploit.com/releases/framework-3.2.tar.gz

The easiest way would be to use the wget command:

wget "http://spool.metasploit.com/releases/framework-3.2.tar.gz"

Unpack the program:

tar -zxvf framework-3.2.tar.gz

You will then need to update Metasploit with the latest exploits and updates by going into the framework-3.2 sub-directory and issuing the subversion update command:

sudo svn update

You now have the latest version of Metasploit. It is recommended that you issue the "sudo svn update" command every time you are about to use the program or at least once a week.

Tested this on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) beta...