Hardy upgrade without Firefox 3

Michael Zoet Michael.Zoet at zoet.de
Tue Apr 1 19:59:51 UTC 2008


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forgot this:
>
> The firefox executable is a symlink to the firefox beta 3 executable.
> I just changed the symlink of firefox to point to firefox 2 by hand.
> But this may break on the next update and I have to change it back by
> hand.
> I'm not sure if this can be done with the update-alternative system.
> That would be the debian way. Just give it a try.
root at vogesen:/usr/bin# ls -la firefox*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-03-29 14:57 firefox -> firefox-3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-03-29 14:57 firefox-2 ->
../lib/firefox/firefox-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-03-29 14:57 firefox-3.0 ->
../lib/firefox-3.0b4/firefox.sh
root at vogesen:/usr/bin# rm firefox
root at vogesen:/usr/bin# ln -s firefox-2 firefox
root at vogesen:/usr/bin# ls -la firefox*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2008-04-01 21:44 firefox -> firefox-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-03-29 14:57 firefox-2 ->
../lib/firefox/firefox-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-03-29 14:57 firefox-3.0 ->
../lib/firefox-3.0b4/firefox.sh

Hope this helps.

Michael
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