Blacklisting firefox 3.0 in Hardy (and installing 2.0)

I used the following resources to accomplish this:

• http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208426

First add an additional deb source for feisty packages. I did it like this:

touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list
echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse" >>  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list

Then you have to tell apt that feisty has preference for the firefox packages:

nano -w /etc/apt/preferences

And add this to the file:

Package: firefox
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: firefox-gnome-support
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

And the last thing to do:

aptitude install firefox

Make sure all of this is executed as sudo!

[edit]
They fixed this “problem”. You can now install firefox-2 instead of using this overlay stuff.

sudo aptitude install firefox-2 firefox-2-gnome-support