Installing and updating Firefox Developer via PPA aurora channel
Related: How do I install the Firefox Developer Edition? - it is just related, the question is not simple about how to install Firefox
So, I have added repo
ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora
but I can't install current developer version (53). I'm still running the stable (51) official version.
Even in synaptic I can't see 53 version package. Could it be because on ppa https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-aurora, next to every package it shows (I need package for 16.10):
Failed to build: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64e
If it is so, how do you recommend to proceed? Install manually and wait?
20.9.2017 - Edit
it looks like they started to update the channel again see comment https://askubuntu.com/a/936166/642778 bellow.
added a title for clearance: Basically because the problem is really not just "how to install Firefox". Yes, you can just download archive from the official FF web, decompress, run and FF will do self-auto updates.
But there are some people, who want the source code too, people who are updating their FF extensions, or people who cannot have allowed auto-updates or many other reasons...
This PPA was updated on September 17, 2017 (with version 57.0b1), after 5 months of inactivity. It's kind of a weird release schedule but that's probably related to the changes in release channels which are described here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/simplifying-firefox-release-channels/
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