How to keep Firefox Nightly up-to-date?

[paulmenzel]

Sorry for being ignorant. I installed the Debian package. How do I keep the installation updated? Firefox Nightly notifies me, that there is a new version available, and the Web page offers me to download an archive. What to do then?

[Vitexus]

Dear Paul, This is good question. On ubuntu i try to use group "users" to allow users update nightly's files. On debian is no clean & easy way how can your process write to /opt/nightly so i have chowned nightly's files to my uid to allow perform update by clicking on "restart and update" menu item.

Anyway you can run aptitude reinstall nightly to download and unpack fresh files anytime. (twice per day perhaps ?)

Any advises how to make updating better are pretty welcomed.

[paulmenzel]

Dear Vitexus,

Thank you for the quick reply. Using apt reinstall nightly worked fine for me.

In (at least) Debian Sid/unstable, the group users is also present.

$ grep users /etc/group
users:x:100:

So, I add myself to that group, and Firefox’ auto-updater should work, when run from my user.

To integrate it better with the packaging system, I suppose, you would need to bump the version of the package each time a new nightly build is available.