I used the following resources to accomplish this:
- http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208426
First add an additional deb source for feisty packages. I did it like this:
1 2 | touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list
echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list
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Then you have to tell apt that feisty has preference for the firefox packages:
1 | nano -w /etc/apt/preferences
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And add this to the file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | Package: firefox
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: firefox-gnome-support
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001
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And the last thing to do:
1 | aptitude install firefox
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Make sure all of this is executed as sudo!
[edit] _ They fixed this “problem”. You can now install firefox-2 instead of using this overlay stuff._
1 | sudo aptitude install firefox-2 firefox-2-gnome-support
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