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Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
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Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used -keyserver–keyserver; you're missing a dash/hyphen, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Extending on that: LookingActually, looking closer at your screenshot and your example log entries, it looks like you actually used an "em"en dash" (or perhaps an "en"em dash") instead of a hyphen:

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to an emthe en dash.

The correct commands are as follows:

apt-get remove iceweasel
echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used -keyserver; you're missing a dash, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Extending on that: Looking at your screenshot, it looks like you actually used an "em dash" (or an "en dash"):

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to an em dash.

The correct commands are as follows:

apt-get remove iceweasel
echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used –keyserver; you're missing a dash/hyphen, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Actually, looking closer at your screenshot and your example log entries, it looks like you actually used an "en dash" (or perhaps an "em dash") instead of a hyphen:

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to the en dash.

The correct commands are as follows:

apt-get remove iceweasel
echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build
Added the full corrected commands to install Firefox
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karel
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Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used -keyserver; you're missing a dash, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Extending on that: Looking at your screenshot, it looks like you actually used an "em dash" (or an "en dash"):

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to an em dash.

The correct commands are as follows:

apt-get remove iceweasel
echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used -keyserver; you're missing a dash, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Extending on that: Looking at your screenshot, it looks like you actually used an "em dash" (or an "en dash"):

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to an em dash.

Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used -keyserver; you're missing a dash, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Extending on that: Looking at your screenshot, it looks like you actually used an "em dash" (or an "en dash"):

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to an em dash.

The correct commands are as follows:

apt-get remove iceweasel
echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build
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Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
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  • 19
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  • 270

Note it says "use option --keyserver", and it looks like you used -keyserver; you're missing a dash, so it's screwing up your entire command.

Extending on that: Looking at your screenshot, it looks like you actually used an "em dash" (or an "en dash"):

enter image description here

My guess would be that you've copied and pasted that command from someplace, and something along the way 'autocorrected' the double-dash to an em dash.