FF 3.5 in Jaunty

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Nigel,

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:27, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
>
> I just tried 'sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5'
> and got the following:
>
> nigel at nigel:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   apturl firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-branding firefox-3.5-branding gnome-app-install
> gnome-icon-theme libcanberra0 libgtkhtml2-0 libtdb1 python-gconf
>   python-gst0.10 python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-pyorbit python-sexy
> python-vte ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
...
>
> What is going on? Why on earth does apt-get want to install firefox and firefox-3.0 (and all the
> gnome stuff)? I just want 3.5.

I get the following information:

[output]
aptitude show firefox-3.5
Package: firefox-3.5
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 3633k
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), xulrunner-1.9.1
(>= 1.9.1~b4~), libasound2 (> 1.0.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6
(>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0),
libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnspr4-0d (>= 4.7.3-0ubuntu1~),
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), firefox-3.5-branding
| abrowser-3.5-branding
Recommends: ubufox
Suggests: firefox-3.5-gnome-support (=
3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1), latex-xft-fonts, libthai0
Conflicts: firefox-3.1 (< 3.1~b4~hg20090317)
Replaces: firefox-3.1
Provides: firefox-3.1, www-browser
...
[/output]

No idea why your system wants to install firefox-3.0, that is indeed
strange. As for the gnome packages, same mystery, all it should
install are a few gtk libraries as shown in the aptitude output above.

You should purge the existing firefox before installing firefox-3.5,
maybe this helps.


Regards, Myriam.
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