On 31 December 2010 16:15, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 31/12/10 12:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> >> I installed the latest Firefox version from the Mozilla nightly ppa >> which was working perfectly until an update today when I can't get it to >> open. >> I uninstalled it but can't see the original Firefox that shipped with >> 10.04 anywhere, not in the Ubuntu Software centre or in Synaptic Package >> manager. >> Can someone tell me how I can re-install the original 10.04 Firefox? > > The package manager defaults to installing the most recent version of a > package it knows about, so you have to get it to forget about the version in > the Mozilla ppa. > > To do this you need to disable or remove the Mozilla nightly repository and > reload your package lists, then you should be able to re-install Firefox 3.6 > from the package manager or with this in a terminal: > > sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox > > You might also have to remove any of the Firefox 4 beta dependencies. The > main one which springs to mind is xulrunner, which is at version 2 for > Firefox 4 and version 1.9.2 in the default Firefox in 10.04.
For future reference one can use ppa-purge to disable a ppa and revert to the normal repositories. It is probably too late for the OP to use this however. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
