rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Tony Arnold]

Nik N wrote:
> In a moment of inattention, I have allowed automatic system update to
> "upgrade" Firefox on my Ubuntu 8.04 to 3.xx. Like many others, I find
> it necessary to roll it back to the last 2.xx available for Ubuntu.
> 
> What is the proper procedure to do that (and to prevent any future
> attempts of the system to "upgrade" Firefox?)

sudo aptitude install firefox-2
sudo aptitude remove firefox-3.0

should do it!

Regards,
Tony.
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