FF 3.5 in Jaunty

[Nigel Ridley]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:05, Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name> wrote:
>> Paul Lemmons wrote:
>>> Does anybody know if Firefox 3.5 will be made available in the regular repositories in Jaunty? If so I will just be patient. If I have to wait until October I will hunt down the PPA's and make the leap earlier.
>> I am aware that it can be obtained as a tar-ball and I know of at least one PPA where it can be downloaded from today. What I am really hoping to find out is if when it goes "GA" at the end of the month, will it be made available in the standard repositories or will Canonical delay that until October when the next release of Kubuntu is released.
> 
> Usually, only security fixes are made available in the regular
> repositories, that is main, universe, multiverse and restricted. But
> as far as firefox-3.5 is concerned, it has been in the universe
> repository in Jaunty with the version beta 4 on release time, but
> firefox-3.0 is installed with higher priority. To override this, you
> can force the installation with sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5.
> 
> The current Firefox-3.5 release from Mozilla will eventually find it's
> way to the Jaunty-backports.
> 
> 
> Regards, Myriam
> 
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I just tried 'sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5'
and got the following:

nigel at nigel:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   apturl firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-branding firefox-3.5-branding gnome-app-install 
gnome-icon-theme libcanberra0 libgtkhtml2-0 libtdb1 python-gconf
   python-gst0.10 python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-pyorbit python-sexy 
python-vte ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
Suggested packages:
   firefox-3.0-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts firefox-3.5-gnome-support libcanberra-gtk0 
python-gconf-dbg python-gst0.10-dbg python-gnome2-extras-doc
   python-launchpad-integration-dbg python-pyorbit-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   apturl firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-branding firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding 
gnome-app-install gnome-icon-theme libcanberra0 libgtkhtml2-0 libtdb1
   python-gconf python-gst0.10 python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-pyorbit 
python-sexy python-vte ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
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What is going on? Why on earth does apt-get want to install firefox and firefox-3.0 (and all the 
gnome stuff)? I just want 3.5.

Blessings,

Nigel