I don't want to beat this to death, but...

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:14:08PM +0100, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> Have done that, with symlink in /usr/bin from /usr/local/bin/firefox
> and everything seems to be working, for all seven users.  Then I tried
> to use apt-get to uninstall the other version and it says it'll have
> to also uninstall a trivial little packaged called ubuntu-desktop...
> Um, better not. I guess I'll just have to redo the symlink every time
> the backport gets updated.

Why do you need the symlink? I'd expect /usr/local/bin always to be in
front of /usr/bin in $PATH, so it should take precedence without having
to touch /usr/bin/firefox at all.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]