[Bug 208852] Re: firefox-2 command runs Firefox 3 when are both installed

[brettalton]

I was just about to post this bug, luckily I found it.

$ ls -l /usr/bin/fire*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-04-06 10:25 /usr/bin/firefox -> firefox-3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-03-26 10:05 /usr/bin/firefox-2 -> ../lib/firefox/firefox-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-04-06 10:25 /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 -> ../lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox.sh

But for some reason, when you type in 'firefox-2' in the command line,
Firefox 3.0b5 pops up.

$ firefox-2

It's just the most confusing thing because when I run this:

$ firefox-2 --version
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org

It says it's version 2!

Here's my Ubuntu and firefox package information. I'm up-to-date as of
2008-04-06 at 11am EST

$ lsb_release -rd && apt-cache policy firefox-2 && apt-cache policy firefox-3.0 && apt-cache policy firefox
Description:	Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release:	8.04
firefox-2:
  Installed: 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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firefox-2 command runs Firefox 3 when are both installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208852
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