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nTia89

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From: varese, italy

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,230

keeping the repo version

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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JHeaton

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 158

Re: keeping the repo version

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.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: keeping the repo version

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.

nTia89

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From: varese, italy

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,230

Re: keeping the repo version

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......

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: keeping the repo version

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.

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)

nTia89

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From: varese, italy

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,230

Re: keeping the repo version

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.

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 ?

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: keeping the repo version

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)

nTia89

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From: varese, italy

Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: keeping the repo version

but if i install firefox-pgo it replaces firefox from extra. how can i solve this?

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SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: keeping the repo version

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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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: keeping the repo version

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....

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