FF 3.5 in Jaunty

[O. Sinclair]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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
> 
Another option is Swiftfox, found at http://getswiftfox.com
they have repos and gave me 3.5 rc2 on Hardy....

Sinclair