I wanted to test out a more recent version of Firefox on Linux Mint 18.2, so I went over to grab the Ubuntu PPA.
I ran the installation commands (as root):
add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next apt-get update apt-get install firefox
But apt wouldn’t update the package, because the default package priorities (check /etc/apt/preferences.d/*.pref) won’t allow the use of Ubuntu packages over Mint packages.
Fair enough, I created a new file /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox.pref containing:
Package: firefox Pin: origin ppa.launchpad.net Pin-Priority: 900 Package: firefox Pin: release o=Ubuntu Pin-Priority: 900
And updated to the beta (currently 55.0b12).
Enjoy the 10 fixed bugs and the exciting 127 new bugs to discover!
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