Firefox KDE support

[sumski]

I believe they are doing it in the same way, but i managed to be ahead of official package (i think )
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...l=1#post305140
Only thing that incorrectly states firefox-kde, and there's no such package

[moray33]

1. Create a pin file: sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/blue-shell-firefox-kde-pin-1000
2. Copy and paste this in to the file:

Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-blue-shell-firefox-kde
Pin-Priority: 1000

Seems to work fine for me.

The file name may not matter but I changed it for the sake of being proper and organized.

Hey, guys, I did this but it seems it doesn't work, because Firefox has been update to the Firefox 15 standard version :/

[ti_tux]

hy morray33,

what you can do is change the pin priority to 1001, and run apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. Firefox will be downgraded, so when it's done, rechange the pin priority to 1000.

[moray33]

hy morray33,

what you can do is change the pin priority to 1001, and run apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. Firefox will be downgraded, so when it's done, rechange the pin priority to 1000.

Ok, thanks, I've done it and now I have Firefox 14 KDE and the system doesn't tells me there's an update avaliable... But, why it did before? In other computer with Kubuntu (where Firefox hasn't been uploaded yed) also tells that is an update avaliable... Why is this? I don't understand

P.S: Maybe it's because the Firefox package that I had installed was from the sumski's PPA, I don't know

[Xplorer4x4]

Ok I can confirm my method is not working because I to got upgraded to Firefox 15 from Canonical to and with the upgrade I lost some functions such as opening torrents in Vuze rather then having to save then open them. Can soem one point out what was wrong with my script?

[moray33]

Ok I can confirm my method is not working because I to got upgraded to Firefox 15 from Canonical to and with the upgrade I lost some functions such as opening torrents in Vuze rather then having to save then open them. Can soem one point out what was wrong with my script?

I'm not sure if this has sense, but maybe it's because the firefox package we had was sumki's and not Blue Shell's version... After doing what ti_tux said I have no problems.

[Wallace]

So is sumki's fire-fox package no longer available? Should we be using Blue Shell's ppa now? I changed the sumki's pin priority to 1001, and ran apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. Firefox was downgraded, but no upgrade to fire-fox 15 in sumki's ppa.

[moray33]

So is sumki's fire-fox package no longer available? Should we be using Blue Shell's ppa now?

Yes. Since the Kubuntu Team deciden to maintain Firefox with KDE compatiblity there had no sense to sumski do it the same thing.

[ti_tux]

So is sumki's fire-fox package no longer available? Should we be using Blue Shell's ppa now? I changed the sumki's pin priority to 1001, and ran apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. Firefox was downgraded, but no upgrade to fire-fox 15 in sumki's ppa.

You should now use the blue-shell ppa maintained by kubuntu devs; sumski's ppa for firefox is no longer maintained. FF15 is not yet in the ppa. Let them some time...

[Wallace]

Thanks guys. Changed over to Blue Shell ppa and created the file with the pin code. Ran update and then dist-upgrade and now it shows a firefox 15 upgrade which I assume is from Canonical. Confused! Mind you I'm still using Sumki's 14.1 package for firefox.

[ti_tux]

Have you done exactly what that is said on post #87 especially for the origin of the package ? If yes, put the priority to 1001, update and upgrade for installing the FF package of blue-shell even if it is downgrading FF. Then re-put the pin priority to 1000.

[Wallace]

Solved..thanks a million!

[geoaraujo]

Have you done exactly what that is said on post #87 especially for the origin of the package ? If yes, put the priority to 1001, update and upgrade for installing the FF package of blue-shell even if it is downgrading FF. Then re-put the pin priority to 1000.

Do I have to change file's name too, for example, blue-shell-firefox-kde-pin-1001 ?

[Wallace]

Do I have to change file's name too, for example, blue-shell-firefox-kde-pin-1001 ?

I didn't change the file name. Just the pin priority inside the file.

[geoaraujo]

I didn't change the file name. Just the pin priority inside the file.

I've done that, but nothing happened. I'm running Firefox 15, no downgrade popped out...
Should I just wait for blue-shell's package of Firefox 15?