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timrichardson
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Post subject: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
 Posted: 15.09.2010, 09:48
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How can I set up dist-upgrade so that when there is a new version of iceweasel in experimental, it is picked up as an upgrade? Right now, I manually upgrade like this
apt-get install iceweasel/experimental
this is very clumsy when I need first to install dependencies in experimental. I'm sure there is a better way. |
Last edited by timrichardson on 15.09.2010, 12:02; edited 1 time in total
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DonKult
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Post subject: RE: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
Posted: 15.09.2010, 10:11
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Thats a wonderful example of "if it breaks, you can keep the pieces", so moved to the dragons forum…
I use something similar to
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Package: iceweasel xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 xulrunner-1.9.3 libmozjs3d libmozjs4d
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 100
But you will need to tweak at least the Package: line as it needs to include ALL packages an updated iceweasel could depend on and should therefore come from experimental too…
Failing to do so will not result in an upgraded iceweasel, adding to much will get you too many packages from experimental… (therefore the dragons forum)
But you might want to try the archive from the official maintainer with even more experimental packages: http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1032 (its updated to beta5 in the meantime) |
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Post subject: RE: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
Posted: 15.09.2010, 10:14
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edit: donkult beat me to the punch 
I think the move here was pretty self explanatory
For once off installs, to get apt to handle dependencies from experimental also, you can use:
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apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel
For longer term maintenance, use the apt-pinning method above, I find man apt_preferences very informative. |
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timrichardson
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Post subject: RE: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
Posted: 15.09.2010, 12:01
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I didn't even know such a wonderful place existed. Sidux didn't have dragons, and I'll swap dragons for scorpions any day.
Thanks for two really informative replies.
For other readers: Glandium's repository (mozilla.debian.net and isn't debian getting a bit ubuntish with all these PPAs) has 4.0Betas but no stable releases (such as 3.6.x) |
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Post subject: RE: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
Posted: 17.09.2010, 00:31
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| If the sid version of iceweasel isn't current enough for you perhaps you would be happier with the current version of firefox instead (its even more up to date than iceweasel/experimental). |
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powdered.toast.man
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Post subject: Re: RE: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
Posted: 19.09.2010, 23:13
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browe wrote:
If the sid version of iceweasel isn't current enough for you perhaps you would be happier with the current version of firefox instead (its even more up to date than iceweasel/experimental).
how would one install firefox? |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: "pin" iceweasel to experimental?
Posted: 19.09.2010, 23:47
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This answer is UNSUPPORTED. There is no help available for this on the official forums.
For 32-bit firefox beta4 get it athttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
For 64-bit firefox beta4 get it at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b6/linux-x86_64/en-US/
as your user: after download, use dolphin to "extract here".
as your user:
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ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /home/username/firefox/
as your user: in a terminal
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kmenuedit
Add a new entry for firefox under Internet.
All of this is very simple to undo and will not put files in your system other than in /home/username. Also, you will have direct access to your bookmarks that were in iceweasel. BE AWARE: It can mess up your iceweasel preferences in /home/username/.mozilla.
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powdered.toast.man
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Posted: 20.09.2010, 04:51
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| Thanks, Neal. Worked great! |
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Posted: 20.09.2010, 06:15
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# apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
Installed: 3.6.10-1
Candidate: 4.0~b5-0
Version table:
4.0~b5-0 0 ( Same as the current Firefox 4 beta )
500 http://mozilla.debian.net/packages/ ./ Packages
*** 3.6.10-1 0 ( Same as the current Firefox release)
101 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.5.13-1 0
500 http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
All of the above packages are maintianed by the same Debian dev.
If you must have the version in experimental, you can add to your /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 101
You would still need to do apt-get -t experimental install packagename
Keep in mind using anything but sid is not supported. |
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Posted: 24.09.2010, 16:03
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| I downloaded Adobe's 64 bit flashplayer tarball and extracted it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Running Firefox 4 beta 6 from my home directory, using Neal's instructions, I can browse any page containing flash elements without crashing, very unlike my experience when 64 bit flashplayer was installable using apt. |
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powdered.toast.man
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Posted: 26.09.2010, 17:55
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I just noticed that the sound doesn't seem to work with the 64 bit flash player in firefox 4.
Sound works after installing Gnome. |
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