Firefox and Thunderbird.

[John McMonagle]

First try it wanted to remove way too much even x.org.
Then set feisty to priority of 200

apt-get  install  mozilla-thunderbird/feisty
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   mozilla-thunderbird: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.1) but 1.12.4-3 is 
to be installed
                        Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1) but 
2.3.6.ds1-13 is to be installed
                        Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.4.2) but 1.2.4-4 is to 
be installed
                        Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2) but 1:4.1.1-21 is 
to be installed
                        Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9) but 2.12.4-2 
is to be installed
                        Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3) but 2.8.20-7 is 
to be installed
                        Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.1) but 1.14.8-5 
is to be installed
                        Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2) but 4.1.1-21 is 
to be installed
                        Depends: libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0) but 2:1.1.0.2-5 
is to be installed
Building dependency tree... Done
Selected version 1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3 (Ubuntu:7.04/feisty) for 
mozilla-thunderbird
The following extra packages will be installed:
   belocs-locales-bin binutils cpp-4.1 g++-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base 
gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gtk2-engines-pixbuf libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev
   libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonobo2-dev libbonoboui2-0 
libbonoboui2-common libbonoboui2-dev libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libcairo2
   libcairo2-dev libdatrie0 libdatrie0-dev libdbus-glib-1-2 libgcc1 
libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring-dev
   libgnome-keyring0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomeui-dev 
libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-dev libgnomevfs2-extra
   libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev 
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev librsvg2-2 
librsvg2-common libselinux1
   libselinux1-dev libsepol1 libsepol1-dev libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.1-dev 
libthai-data libthai-dev libthai0 libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 linux-libc-dev
   locales mozilla-thunderbird x11proto-randr-dev
Suggested packages:
   binutils-doc gcc-4.1-locales gcc-4.1-doc lib64stdc++6 libc6-dev-amd64 
lib64gcc1 gtk-engines-pixmap glibc-doc manpages-dev libcairo2-doc
   libdatrie0-doc libglib2.0-doc libgnomeui-doc libgnomevfs2-bin 
libgtk2.0-doc ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk 
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
   ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp 
libpango1.0-doc libstdc++6-4.1-doc libthai-doc 
mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind
   mozilla-thunderbird-inspector mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
Recommended packages:
   libmudflap0-dev libatk1.0-data libglib2.0-data gamin fam x-ttcidfont-conf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   libssp0 linux-kernel-headers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   belocs-locales-bin libdatrie0 libdatrie0-dev libselinux1-dev 
libsepol1-dev libthai-data linux-libc-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
   binutils cpp-4.1 g++-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base gnome-icon-theme 
gnome-keyring gtk2-engines-pixbuf libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev libbonobo2-0
   libbonobo2-common libbonobo2-dev libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common 
libbonoboui2-dev libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libcairo2 libcairo2-dev
   libdbus-glib-1-2 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev 
libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring-dev libgnome-keyring0 libgnomeui-0 
libgnomeui-common
   libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-dev 
libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev
   libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev librsvg2-2 
librsvg2-common libselinux1 libsepol1 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.1-dev 
libthai-dev
   libthai0 libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 locales x11proto-randr-dev
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
   mozilla-thunderbird
54 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 2 to remove and 771 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 50.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 36.7MB of additional disk space will be used.

Lots of changes but do not see anything obvious that will cause problems.

Did not actually do it. I think I'll try it on a test system first.
Am I likely to have a functioning system?
Issues I can think of are plugins, firefox thunderbird and desktop 
integration.

Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:43:26PM -0500, John McMonagle wrote:
>> Alexander
>>
>> I tried to rebuild a ubuntu source package in etch and it did not go well.
>> Maybe I tried the wrong ubuntu version.
>> Or are you suggesting pulling the packages from feisty?
>> Is that practical?
> 
> If it works out of the box it will likely stay that way on updates
> ... give it a try.
> 
>  - Alexander
>