Hardy upgrade without Firefox 3
JosephK
joseph at oxtedonline.net
Tue Apr 1 19:49:41 UTC 2008
On 15:31 Tue 01 Apr , Peter N Spotts wrote:
> 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?
> >
>
> 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...
Thanks! That is certainly an option but I would prefer to do it the
'Debian Way', ie via apt.
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Regards, Joe
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