Mozilla developers have announced the launch of an official repository providing deb packages for installing nightly builds of Firefox on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Debian-based distributions. The created packages are compatible with the traditional versions of Firefox for Debian and Ubuntu, available for download in ".tar.bz2" archives.
Using the APT repository allows utilizing the standard tools of the distributions for installing and updating packages. Additional optimizations and security flags have been included in the package compilation. The process for publishing builds is integrated into the main release preparation process of Firefox. It also includes a .desktop file for creating a shortcut on the desktop and in the distribution menu.
Commands for installing nightly builds of Firefox from the repository:
wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.mozilla.org.gpg > /dev/null # The fingerprint should be 35BA A0B3 3E9E B396 F59C A838 C0BA 5CE6 DC63 15A3 gpg --quiet --no-default-keyring --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.mozilla.org.gpg --fingerprint | awk '/pub/{getline; gsub(/^ +| +$/,""); print "n"$0"n"}’ echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.mozilla.org.gpg] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-nightly sudo apt-get install firefox-nightly-l10n-ru
Source: linux.org.ru
