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It seems the ppa for Firefox Developer Edition (formally aurora) is no longer active. I have installed Firefox Developer Edition from Firefox's website and installed it in /opt/firefox. Now it is asking me to update and I get a new tar file. Do I have to overwrite that directory every time I want to do an update? Of note, related post:

do not seem to work for me.

SumNeuron
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Did you open the PPAs in a browser and navigate upwards? That's all I did for this answer (starting with a link from your provided link that gave me a forbidden error)

You'll eventually see the PPA being used is

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

This may not be all they provide - I just followed links to an alternative.

Do note however - I have no experience using this 3rd party source; having never used it, thus cannot say this is what you're looking is suitable, fit for purpose, nor what you're actually looking for (even your unstated architecture).

guiverc
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  • I am looking for firefox developer edition, not firefox – SumNeuron Feb 25 '22 at 23:28
  • You can look yourself as what they (Mozilla) provide; however they have opted to provide packages via *snap* for Ubuntu, as it gives Mozilla greater control; so *deb* packages options are now reduced on what they used to be. – guiverc Feb 25 '22 at 23:44
  • to my knowledge they no longer offer developer edition via ppa, hence my question. So how do I update it? or how do I find the ppa if it does exist? – SumNeuron Feb 25 '22 at 23:45
  • I would likely ask the question on a [Mozilla forums](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/forums/) as I'm largely limited to what I see with various projects with, which has included via Ubuntu News various statements from Mozilla & the future via *snap* but it was mostly general news & I don't know if it covered all products (eg. Developer Edition) as not being a user of it myself, I had no interest in remembering it. – guiverc Feb 25 '22 at 23:49
  • I've checked the forums. So since I can't find the ppa and had to install it via deb. Now that it offers an update via deb, how do I install that? – SumNeuron Feb 26 '22 at 00:08
  • This still doesn't answer my questoin – SumNeuron Mar 02 '22 at 19:54
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You just need to change the permissions of your install folder in /opt as such: sudo chown -R $(whoami): /opt/firefox/

Gus
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  • this does not answer the question at all. OP was asking *what is the best way to update* and did not indicate in any way that they were having permission issues. – Esther Jul 05 '22 at 16:23