Re: Upgrading iceweasel on Wheezy LTS
On 2016-06-10, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> How would that work having both packages on my system at the same time;
>> I mean, for example, if I typed 'firefox' in a terminal which flavor
>> would I be likely to launch?
>
> The non-esr version if it is present on your system.
I'm using release, so yes, it's present.
>> Is there no clean way simply to keep iceweasel permanently 'kept back'
>> without resorting to uninstalling it, as I really have no need for both
>> the esr and release versions?
>
> You already have them, since iceweasel _is_ the esr version of firefox,
> except that it has a different name and icon. As I said, to avoid
> having both versions installed you need to create your own iceweasel
> metapackage. That's probably not really worth the effort, considering
> how little 100 Megabytes of disk space cost these days.
Gotcha. Thanks.
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
>
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