How to install firefox in precise64 vagrant box

Question

I want to use selenium-webdriver with chrome or firefox in precise 64 bit box.

At first I must install firefox, so I followed this instraction. http://www.installationpage.com/selenium/how-to-run-selenium-headless-firefox-in-ubuntu/

I added ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable to /etc/apt/sources.list, then sudo apt-get update.

But then I got this error.

E: Type 'ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

I also tried add-apt-repository but it fails with command not found error.

How can do to install firefox to precise64? Or is it better if I use another box for using selenium webdriver?

Answer 1

Installing firefox will cause a lot of dependencies to be installed, .e.g X and a desktop environment or at least a light weight WM.

In fact, 12.04.4 LTS already has firefox 28.0 in its official repository, you don't have to add a PPA to get the latest stable, just do sudo apt-get -y install firefox and it'll do.

BTW: You are getting the error because it's not the correct line(s) to be added in sources.list or split files under /etc/sources.list.d/*.list

it should be like below:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu precise main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu precise main 

To use add-apt-repository command, you'll have to install python-software-properties beforehand.