Pinning Help....Please

[chimak111]

Because I was running it and had troubles with videos with it.

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...k-videos/page2

Let's try again:

When I asked you to run

locate firefox-bin

the output you posted was this:

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ locate firefox-bin
/home/greg/FixingFF/53/firefox/firefox-bin
/home/greg/FixingFF/55/firefox/firefox-bin
greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ ^C
greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$

No sign of Firefox 45.

To be sure, run

sudo updatedb

to refresh the database, wait till you get the terminal prompt back and then run

locate firefox-bin

again.

[GregM]

So what does this mean?

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ apt policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[chimak111]

So what does this mean?

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ apt policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500
    500 [URL]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/URL] xenial/main amd64 Packages
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Sorry! Looking back I see you posted that already.

In which case, I'm wondering why the locate command didn't pick it up and why the system hasn't updated it. I'm totally confused now.

Edit: I just checked and the firefox executable is in /usr/lib/firefox and is just firefox, not firefox-bin. The latter is found only in the version downloaded from mozilla.org. So that explains why the locate command only picked up the two versions in your home folder. However, the mystery of why your system Firefox is still at version 45 still remains.

[GregM]

If you have Muon package manager (not Discover), you can view different package versions available, and lock a particular one, all from the GUI. Right-click on the package, and you will see the option there

I can see FF45 in muon.
Is there a button to push that will allow me to update it (45) from there?