i use ff-esr for work stuff mostly, but i do want to test firefox occasionally... but it seems i can't install both on artix :
anyway to workaround this?
(coming from debian, not into arch/pacman options much yet).
thanks.
firefox-esr and firefox have a lot of conflicting files. They have to conflict.
Install a separate OS under QEMU and run firefox (or firefox-esr) there if you really need to have both (for testing I presume). Have the other version installed on your main system.
I highly suggest having the Arch wiki article on pacman (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman) bookmarked. Checking pacman's man page should go without saying.
yes, i've seen pacman wiki page ...(my first read was pacman/Rosetta actually)
i think easier solution for my case is to just download vanilla firefox from mozilla to some other path. eg. /opt .. will try that out first..
( just fyi, there was no such conflict in .deb distros, you could have both installed with apt.)
Debian probably threw one of the packages into /opt or some other directory.
Make sure they both aren't using the same ~/.mozilla folder, your browser profile will end up corrupted if you keep using different versions to access it because breaking changes get made from time to time. Make a desktop file with an alternate profile dir to launch your custom installed version, if you start them without any args they are both going to use ~/.mozilla as their default. Unless that has changed recently, it always has been the situation afaik.
both are using same ~/.mozilla/firefox folder for over a decade... with different profiles assigned to each.. (eg. default, default-esr). first run under a new install i usually add -P flag to pick the right profile just to make sure i won't corrupt any other profiles. and always keep backups around..
thanks everyone for answering, vanilla firefox in /opt works fine.