Ubuntuzilla Part 2 – Success!

As mentioned in yesterday’s post about Ubuntuzilla I decided to give ubuntuzilla and the Firefox 3.5 upgrade another shot today.

I’m pleased to say it worked great this time. No “page not found errors.” No hacks, kludges or work-arounds needed. It “just worked” (unlike yesterday).

Now then, we have to ponder… why did it work today and not yesterday? Well son, that’s a bit of mystery to me. However, I was also wrestling with Adobe Air yesterday. I might theorize that package I installed for it may have been helpful for this as well. Maybe?

Yeah, it is a stretch. In looking through .bash_history, looks like the only added package came from this command:

sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

I don’t comprehend exactly what that package does, but it has something to do with multi-cast DNS, so perhaps it is indeed a factor. You know what? Since this all works I’m just going to leave it alone

But if you found this article via a search and are wondering why your Ubuntuzilla installed Firefox 3.5 won’t work with Ubuntu 9.04 (aka Jaunty Jackalope) then you might just want to give it a shot. If you do, let me know how it goes, OK?

[Updated 24 hours later] OK yeah. This works great as long as you don’t want to run Flash. The ubuntuzilla installed Firefox 3.5 appears to be 32 bit and my system is x64. I can’t seem to entice a version of flash to work in this mixed environment.

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