Is this update a retrograde step?
Andrew Farris
flyindragon1 at aol.com
Fri Sep 11 07:32:41 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:45 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> Not so long back, I installed Firefox 3.5 from the Firefox website.
> I've been fairly happy with it. Now the update manager wants me to
> install the latest version of Firefox 3.0. If I do, purely to stop the
> update reminders, will it trash my 3.5 installation? If not, is there
> any way I can stop the update message ?
you could uninstall 3.0... or you could install the ubuntu version of
FF3.5 from it's testing Launchpad repo (though I dont think that'd be
any different from getting it from the FF website...except maybe less
stable since the launchpad repo is of nightly builds)
either that or you can put a hold on your 3.0 firefox install so apt
wont bother you about it any more. I believe to do that you would do
this:
To put a package to hold:
echo "package_name hold"|dpkg --set-selections
to 'unhold' it:
echo "package_name install"|dpkg --set-selecions
Taken from here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=240
Hope that helps :)
--
Andrew
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