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I would like to install the beta of Firefox 4 in lucid or maverick. I know I can install the ubuntu-mozilla-daily PPA (ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa) and have easy apt-get access to firefox-4.0. However, this repository contains not only Firefox, but also daily builds of Thunderbird and other mozilla products.

If I leave this PPA enabled, apt-get upgrade also upgrades Thunderbird 3 to the latest "shredder". I'm not interested in running a daily build of Thunderbird -- I just want Firefox 4.

Is there some combination of pinning, backporting, or something like that which would make it easy for me to run an up-to-date daily of Firefox 4, but only Firefox 4?

nealmcb
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cha
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If you just want the beta, I suggest ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next which has the latest beta, but not the latest nightly.

If you want the latest nightly, you could set up a cron job that pulls the latest nightly from nightly.mozilla.org and installs it in /usr/local. I can try to help if you need help.

Just my suggestions. (I've been using the firefox-next ppa for a while now.)

zpletan
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    Good to know: I'll check out ppa:firefox/firefox-next. But I'd also be like to know the general case of how to pick just one package from a PPA. – cha Feb 01 '11 at 18:20
  • PS: It's ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next. – cha Feb 02 '11 at 16:24
  • Oops. :) I fixed it now. – zpletan Feb 02 '11 at 19:21
  • I like zpletan's suggestion the best, but after researching this the answer seems to be: you can't. A PPA comes with everything in it or nothing. – cha Feb 08 '12 at 21:29
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    @cha what about these instructions? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto#Pinning_the_ubuntu-mozilla-daily_PPA – akaihola May 14 '12 at 13:37
  • Thanks, @akaihola -- that looks like exactly the thing. I didn't know pins could reduce priority for a whole repository. – cha May 14 '12 at 17:54