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Upgrading Firefox

#1 Post by PsychoHermit »

Greetings folks,

I am running Debian stable. Am I likely to break my system if I upgrade Firefox from Unstable? Besides Firefox it wants to upgrade several libraries. Websites are complaining that my Firefox is out of date.

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#2 Post by kedaha »

If you ask me, for your purposes, it'd be preferable to follow the procedure given at wiki.debian.org/Firefox and install to stable from Mozilla binaries. Don't mix repositories. Note the section Migrating from Debian's Firefox to Upstream's
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Thank you. I upgraded to testing but now 81 packages are being held back. How to update them?

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apt update && apt full-upgrade

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That did the trick.

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PsychoHermit wrote: 2022-09-19 21:43 I am running Debian stable. Am I likely to break my system if I upgrade Firefox from Unstable?
Since this topic has been posted in "Beginners' Questions", I would add that anyone concerned about the likelihood of breaking their stable system merely by upgrading Firefox directly from Sid, should first read the link in the wiki at Firefox before updating their entire system from stable to testing, which is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. This is NOT the solution because now the likelihood of the testing system getting broken is much greater; suffice to quote Osamu Aoki, the author of "The Debian Reference" at 2.1.3. Life with eternal upgrades:
The use of the unstable suite isn't recommended. The unstable suite is good for debugging packages as a developer but tends to expose you to unnecessary risks for the normal Desktop usage. Even though the unstable suite of the Debian system looks very stable for most of the times, there have been some package problems and a few of them were not so trivial to resolve.
So, look before you leap.
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#7 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

PsychoHermit wrote: 2022-09-19 22:57 I upgraded to testing
That's not an upgrade...
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#8 Post by craigevil »

Just one of the "fun" packages that just made it's way into Unstable: usrmerge
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
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APT-Sources: https://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main all Packages
Description: Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme
This package will automatically convert the system to the merged
/usr directory scheme, in which the /{bin,sbin,lib}/ directories are
symlinked to their counterparts in /usr/.
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There is no automatic method to restore the precedent configuration, so
there is no going back once this package has been installed.
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usrmerge has been around since buster.
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Head_on_a_Stick wrote: 2022-09-21 05:14 usrmerge has been around since buster.
The transition started on September 17th, 2022, by making init-system-helpers depend on usrmerge.
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#11 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Oh, I see, you mean the default setting. Yes, that was announced just after bookworm became testing IIRC.
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I see today that firefox-esr gets upgraded on my stable system:

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firefox-esr/stable-security 102.3.0esr-1~deb11u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 91.13.0esr-1~deb11u1]
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I don't give a damn but If sites complain your firefox is not the latest, which can happen with firefox-esr over time, might not changing the user agent be a good idea?
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#13 Post by Tupeelo »

I'm still waiting for the firefox 102-esr upgrade and it's 9/25. maybe I messed up my sources.list.

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# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.4.0 lxde 2022-07-09T11:31]/ bullseye main

#deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.4.0 lxde 2022-07-09T11:31]/ bullseye main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security contrib non-free

# bullseye-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free

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Re: Upgrading Firefox

#14 Post by dlu2021 »

A couple of things I see:

1. You seem to be missing "main" on the bullseye-security lines, which would explain why you have seen Firefox yet, or any other security update for anything in main.

2. If you aren't compiling source code to generate binary packages, then you can comment out all of the lines that start with "deb-src".

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Re: Upgrading Firefox

#15 Post by Tupeelo »

Thank You .

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Re: Upgrading Firefox

#16 Post by raul8salazar »

You could use firefox with flatpak.

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