Hardy upgrade without Firefox 3

[Thilo Six]

JosephK wrote the following on 01.04.2008 21:49

> 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.
> 
$ LANG=C aptitude show firefox-2 | head -5
Package: firefox-2
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1

$ LANG=C aptitude show firefox-3.0 | head -4
Package: firefox-3.0
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy firefox-2 firefox-3.0
firefox-2:
  Installed: 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages


HTH
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bye Thilo

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