FF 3.5 in Jaunty

[Nigel Ridley]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:27, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
>> 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
> ...
>> 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.
> 
> I get the following information:
> 
> [output]
> aptitude show firefox-3.5
> Package: firefox-3.5
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/web
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Uncompressed Size: 3633k
> Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), xulrunner-1.9.1
> (>= 1.9.1~b4~), libasound2 (> 1.0.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6
> (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0),
> libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>=
> 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnspr4-0d (>= 4.7.3-0ubuntu1~),
> libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), firefox-3.5-branding
> | abrowser-3.5-branding
> Recommends: ubufox
> Suggests: firefox-3.5-gnome-support (=
> 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1), latex-xft-fonts, libthai0
> Conflicts: firefox-3.1 (< 3.1~b4~hg20090317)
> Replaces: firefox-3.1
> Provides: firefox-3.1, www-browser
> ...
> [/output]
> 
> No idea why your system wants to install firefox-3.0, that is indeed
> strange. As for the gnome packages, same mystery, all it should
> install are a few gtk libraries as shown in the aptitude output above.
> 
> You should purge the existing firefox before installing firefox-3.5,
> maybe this helps.
> 
> 
> Regards, Myriam.
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Hi Myriam,

I don't have firefox installed:

nigel at nigel:~$ aptitude show firefox
Package: firefox
State: not installed
Version: 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 127k
Depends: firefox-3.0, firefox-3.0-branding
Provided by: abrowser
Description: meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
  Firefox 3 is the next major release of the standalone Mozilla browser; it is written in the XUL 
language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.

  This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu. Don't remove 
this if you want to receive automatic major version upgrades for this
  package in future.

nigel at nigel:~$ aptitude show firefox-3.0
Package: firefox-3.0
State: not installed
Version: 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 3539k
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), xulrunner-1.9 (>= 1.9.0.1), libatk1.0-0 (>= 
1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>=
          2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), 
libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnspr4-0d (>= 4.7.3-0ubuntu1~), libpango1.0-0
          (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), firefox-3.0-branding (>= 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~) 
| abrowser-3.0-branding (>= 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~)
Suggests: ubufox, firefox-3.0-gnome-support (= 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1), 
latex-xft-fonts, libthai0
Conflicts: firefox (< 3), firefox-granparadiso (< 3.0~alpha8-0), firefox-libthai, firefox-trunk 
(< 3.0~a8~cvs20070914t1713-0)
Replaces: firefox (< 3), firefox-granparadiso, firefox-libthai, firefox-trunk
Provides: firefox-libthai, www-browser
Description: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
  Firefox delivers safe, easy web browsing. A familiar user interface, enhanced security features 
including protection from online identity theft, and integrated
  search let you get the most out of the web.

  Install this firefox package too, if you want to be automatically upgraded to new major firefox 
versions in the future.

nigel at nigel:~$


So I will just keep my firefox 3.5 rc2 which I downloaded as a tarball and moved into /opt

Blessings,

Nigel