Hardy upgrade without Firefox 3

[Peter N Spotts]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:10:54 +0100
JosephK <joseph at oxtedonline.net> wrote:

> Is it possible to upgrade to Hardy from Gutsy but still keep Firefox
> 2?
> 
> I have Gutsy as my main OS and have Hardy on a separate disk but I
> have some issues with Firefox 3 which is the default in Hardy. When
> Hardy becomes the full release I would like to upgrade but still keep
> FF2 for a while. Is this possible?
> 

The short answer is: Yes. One approach would be to install FF2
manually, untarring it as root into something like /opt. Then remove
any symbolic link to Firefox in /usr/bin and replace it with a symlink
from /opt/firefox/firefox. There may be a more elegant way, but this
works...

Pete

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