Firefox 1.0.3 in amd64 debian sarge? was: How to use backports in amd64

Gerhard Gaußling ggrubbish at web.de
Sat May 7 13:01:52 UTC 2005


Am Saturday 07 May 2005 03:34 schrieb Alf-Ivar Holm:
> Gerhard Gaußling <ggrubbish at web.de> writes:

> There are three packages here:

> http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/dists/hoary-backports/uni
>verse/binary-amd64/
>
> ... but not exactly firefox, I'm afraid.

If there are some brave ubuntu users out there, here is the way to 
install firefox 1.0.3-2 from debian sarge/amd64 on ubuntu, but it 
removes ubuntu-desktop ;-). Is that an metapackage, that we don't need, 
or will it remove gniome completely?

Put this line in your sources.list:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main contrib

for breezy I have these lines:
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe main restricted 
multiverse
 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe 
multiverse

and put these lines in /etc/apt/preferences :

Package: *
Pin: release a=hoary
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=breezy
Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=sarge
Pin-Priority: 500


Then install libfontconfig1 from breezy 
$sudo apt-get -t breezy install libfontconfig1

$ LANG=en sudo apt-get -t sarge install mozilla-firefox=1.0.3-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.0-base libstdc++6 mozilla-firefox
Suggested packages:
  latex-xft-fonts xprint xprt-xprintorg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ubuntu-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.0-base libstdc++6
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mozilla-firefox
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 9734kB/9899kB of archives.
After unpacking 1167kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I'm not shure if that will make hoary quite unusable, or if 
ubuntu-desktop can be removed without uninstalling gnome completely, so 
this might be only a very in-conveneant way to get a secure firefox ;-)

BTW, with this kind of pinning I got now transcode installed and 
working.

regards

Gerhard 




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