Publication Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Who already used Ubuntu 8.04 might be realized that it comes with the newest version of Firefox.
It might be useful for somebody, but I had some problems using it because actually it is a beta release. For example, Firefox's Eclipse integration is not ok with the firefox's beta version. I had some problems with Java plugin. So, I decided to back the the last stable version.
So, when I tried to unistall firefox3 and install firefox2 I was unable to do.
Take a look at the code below to understand what happened.
oalexandrino@oalexandrino:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install firefox-2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package firefox-2 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package firefox-2 has no installation candidate oalexandrino@oalexandrino:/usr/bin$
I was unable to do install it! It wasn't got by apt-get.
After some time googling, I could understand why it happened.
Just after I upgrade from Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.04, not just firefox2, but many other packages weren't got via apt-get.
Here the reason that a friend in a forum told me:
If you have this problem, you can understand better how to fix it by taking a look at the posts that I have posted in the Ubuntu Forum. Here it is:
After I have done the steps that the guy told me (see the posts in the forum), I run the commands above again, now they worked correctly!
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