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hi to all
i want to try the new firefox 4 beta but i don't want to remove actually installed version of it , the version from our extra repo.
so my question is: how can i compile and install firefox-beta keeping firefox without override the lastest one?
thanks
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Last I checked, you can have them both installed side-by-side*. What you will want to do is create a new profile for use with Firefox 4, though, and make sure to select that when you launch Firefox 4 and your original profile when you launch Firefox 3. You can access the profile manager by launching Firefox as follows from the terminal:
firefox -profilemanager
Note that Firefox must be closed completely before doing this otherwise the profile manager won't be loaded.
* I may have been using the firefox-pgo package at the time, so I'm not guaranteeing this. But I think it's the case.
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Obviously your beta package needs to install to a different path as well e.g. /opt - if it overwrites the repo package in /usr, none of that profile business will matter.
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Obviously your beta package needs to install to a different path as well e.g. /opt - if it overwrites the repo package in /usr, none of that profile business will matter.
yes, this i mean ! how can i do this ?
PS: what do you mean with "none of that profile business will matter" i'am not english......
+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
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PS: what do you mean with "none of that profile business will matter" i'am not english......
tomk was referring to what JHeaton's suggestion.
tomk wrote:Obviously your beta package needs to install to a different path as well e.g. /opt - if it overwrites the repo package in /usr, none of that profile business will matter.
yes, this i mean ! how can i do this ?
You need to alter the PKGBUILD and tell where do you want to install the package.
Last edited by karol (2011-01-06 16:15:18)
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nTia89 wrote:PS: what do you mean with "none of that profile business will matter" i'am not english......
tomk was referring to what JHeaton's suggestion.
nTia89 wrote:tomk wrote:Obviously your beta package needs to install to a different path as well e.g. /opt - if it overwrites the repo package in /usr, none of that profile business will matter.
yes, this i mean ! how can i do this ?
You need to alter the PKGBUILD and tell where do you want to install the package.
ok, and how can i do cohabit this two ?
+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome
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I've just installed http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38753 no need to change the PKGBUILD here.
Close your firefox and run
firefox -P
and create a new profile (I've named my new profile 'test'). Then you can run
firefox-beta-bin -P test -no-remote
firefox -P default -no-remote
and have them both open and at the same time.
EDIT: You can also install firefox-nightly from archstuff repo http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uno … positories
Last edited by karol (2011-01-06 16:40:20)
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but if i install firefox-pgo it replaces firefox from extra. how can i solve this?
+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome
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You can take out the conflicts with and change the install path to something else
firefox-nightly (from the AUR) installs to /opt/firefox and symlinks to /usr/bin/firefox-nightly
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nTia89, you need to do some research yourself. As tomk posted, you will have to install it in a location other than the standard one so as not to overwrite your existing firefox. HE also mentioned that installing to /opt would be a good idea. karol also gave you a link to install from AUR where you do not have to change anything in the PKGBUILD as it installs to opt be default.
You need to read instructions and follow them.
Closing....
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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