will firefox 1.1 make hoary release?

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Thu Dec 9 17:14:42 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:55:28AM -0500, volvoguy wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:15:15 -0500, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Except, that would screw up the apt database, wouldn't it?
> 
> Well, if you're going as far as installing unsupported software, you
> might as well put it in an unsupported place. :)  (which I did for a
> while in Warty) Lots of people complained to me that this wasn't very
> "clean", but it worked perfectly for me, didn't mess up the database,
> and allowed me to run either version. I just installed the Mozilla
> version in:
> 
> /home/username/bin/firefox

Actually, if anything I think that's a cleaner approach than many other
options ...

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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