[SOLVED] firefox-2 is not available for ubuntu 80.4

[oalexandrino]

hello,

I've been trying to install firefox-2 under ubuntu 8.04.

but I'm not being able to do that.

take a look below what I get when I try to remove firefox3 and install firefox2

- after I have removed firefox 3, i run the following command

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$

what's wrong?

any idea?

[tech0007]

Check that you have 'universe' enabled in 'Software Sources'. then do 'sudo apt-get update' && 'sudo apt-get firefox-2'

[Pumalite]

You have to have 3.0, then add:
sudo aptitude install firefox-2

[aysiu]

Can you post the output of this command?
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[oalexandrino]

You have to have 3.0, then add:
sudo aptitude install firefox-2

after I run the command above, look at what I got

oalexandrino@oalexandrino:~$ sudo aptitude install firefox-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for firefox-2
No candidate version found for firefox-2
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 152kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 132646 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

[oalexandrino]

Can you post the output of this command?
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

look



# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

[oalexandrino]

Can you post the output of this command?
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

look



# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse



the following command doesn't install anything

:(


sudo apt-get install firefox-2

[aysiu]

Can you also post the output of this command?
cat /etc/lsb-release

[oalexandrino]

Can you also post the output of this command?
cat /etc/lsb-release

hi!

take a look


oalexandrino@oalexandrino:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04"
oalexandrino@oalexandrino:~$

[aysiu]

Okay. The problem is you're running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), but your repositories are mainly for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

So let's get you a fresh repositories list and try again.

Let's save the old list somewhere:
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list and create a new list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list In the new text editor window, paste in
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted

deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free then save the file and exit the text editor.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-2

[oalexandrino]

Okay. The problem is you're running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), but your repositories are mainly for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

So let's get you a fresh repositories list and try again.

Let's save the old list somewhere:
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list and create a new list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list In the new text editor window, paste in
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe main multiverse restricted

deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free then save the file and exit the text editor.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-2

man!

it worked!

I do recognize your help. thanks a milion for the support!!!!