AVLinux Usage

[manmachine]

I have planned to install 32 bit AVL 19.04 in one of my old laptop.
Of course , I can live with the stock applications and effects , as it is . I don't want to update any apps other than Firefox .
I , even prefer not to go online , if updating web browser affects .
How long can I use this edition ,since there would be no 32 bit version further, and I don't want to throw that machine either ?
Please advice.
Thanks in advance.

[Basslint]

I think you could use AVLinux with updated Firefox PPAs, this way it'd be the only thing up-to-date.

[manmachine]

Thanks for the piece of information

[sysrqer]

I think you could use AVLinux with updated Firefox PPAs, this way it'd be the only thing up-to-date.

How would you update from a PPA without updating everything else? Surely apt update would trigger everything else to need updating. Snap or flatpack might be another option (and mozilla provide one of these I believe).

[GMaq]

Hi,

Just so you are aware the last version of AV Linux 32bit is based on Debian "Stretch" which is now "old stable". AV Linux has always used the 3rd party "Ubuntuzilla" repository to provide up to date Mozilla builds of Firefox. Now that I don't support the 32bit ISO's unfortunately the ability to get and update Firefox will be completely dependent on the willingness of Ubuntuzilla to continue to provide 32bit builds of Firefox which they may drop at any time (if they haven't already).

Google dropped 32bit Chrome support 2 or 3 years ago so it will likely only be a matter of time until FF does the same. This reason and the fact that most developers do not provide 32bit builds of their applications/plugins any longer and that the ones that do rarely test their 32bit binaries is why I unfortunately had to let 32bit AV Linux go...

[Basslint]

How would you update from a PPA without updating everything else? Surely apt update would trigger everything else to need updating. Snap or flatpack might be another option (and mozilla provide one of these I believe).

https://askubuntu.com/questions/65245/a ... repository

[manmachine]

Thank you for the corrective suggestion.
Checked....Firefox is available as a snap package...ok.
But should I have to update snap in the future to update Firefox?
If it is yes , again there would be some kind of updating !!
OK.....apart from this , what would be the downside ?

[manmachine]

Hi,

Just so you are aware the last version of AV Linux 32bit is based on Debian "Stretch" which is now "old stable". AV Linux has always used the 3rd party "Ubuntuzilla" repository to provide up to date Mozilla builds of Firefox. Now that I don't support the 32bit ISO's unfortunately the ability to get and update Firefox will be completely dependent on the willingness of Ubuntuzilla to continue to provide 32bit builds of Firefox which they may drop at any time (if they haven't already).

Google dropped 32bit Chrome support 2 or 3 years ago so it will likely only be a matter of time until FF does the same. This reason and the fact that most developers do not provide 32bit builds of their applications/plugins any longer and that the ones that do rarely test their 32bit binaries is why I unfortunately had to let 32bit AV Linux go...

Thank you for the explanation.
I just wanted to extend the life of the machine a bit more. I hope I can accomplish this with the help of Ubuntuzilla.

[GMaq]

Hi,

Just so you are aware the last version of AV Linux 32bit is based on Debian "Stretch" which is now "old stable". AV Linux has always used the 3rd party "Ubuntuzilla" repository to provide up to date Mozilla builds of Firefox. Now that I don't support the 32bit ISO's unfortunately the ability to get and update Firefox will be completely dependent on the willingness of Ubuntuzilla to continue to provide 32bit builds of Firefox which they may drop at any time (if they haven't already).

Google dropped 32bit Chrome support 2 or 3 years ago so it will likely only be a matter of time until FF does the same. This reason and the fact that most developers do not provide 32bit builds of their applications/plugins any longer and that the ones that do rarely test their 32bit binaries is why I unfortunately had to let 32bit AV Linux go...

Thank you for the explanation.
I just wanted to extend the life of the machine a bit more. I hope I can accomplish this with the help of Ubuntuzilla.

You shouldn't need to do anything on a fresh install of AV Linux 2019.4.10 (32bit) the Ubuntuzilla repos are preinstalled and enabled and simply reloading the Synaptic Package Manager should provide an updated Firefox version. Is this not what is happening?