Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #197874

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

Show all headers | View raw

On 7/21/2018 11:14 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On 19/07/18 12:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> I would do the downgrades. Then do an "apt-get clean", and after that,
>> re-install firefox-esr. If you want an up-to-date firefox,
>> install it directly from Mozilla in /opt/firefox.
> 
> Thanks to Dan, Jochen and songbird for the advice to do the downgrade. I 
> backed up some config files and let it rip, and it did it all perfectly.
> 
> I'm giving the latest firefox directly from Mozilla a try. Easy to 
> install and is running now. I've always used deb packages (iceweasel, 
> firefox-esr, etc) but from time to time I had reason to notice that the 
> stable version was old.
> 

That is expected:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html

-- 
John Doe

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca> - 2018-07-19 19:00 +0200
  Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-19 20:20 +0200
    Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca> - 2018-07-20 00:50 +0200
    Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca> - 2018-07-21 23:20 +0200
      Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-07-22 11:00 +0200
  Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2018-07-20 00:20 +0200
  Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-07-20 06:40 +0200

csiph-web