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firefox 3 lenny/sid
Posted by oxtan on Tue 15 Jan 2008 at 09:40
hi,
I am installing a workstation at work and would like to have firefox 3 for
cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid
are there any packages for debian?
my sources.list:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing mai
I am installing a workstation at work and would like to have firefox 3 for
cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid
are there any packages for debian?
my sources.list:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing mai
Comments on this Entry
Posted by Anonymous (80.68.xx.xx) on Tue 15 Jan 2008 at 16:09
Firefox isn't yet released. There are no packages.
Download the tar.gz file and unpack to /opt/firefox, or similar.
Download the tar.gz file and unpack to /opt/firefox, or similar.
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ok. Strange, in fedora there are already rpms. oh well
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From my personal xp:
Iceweasel is often outdated (even for stable releases from FF) and buggy with some add-ons I use a lot. I found my peace by installing official FF binaries and creating respective update-alternatives / debian menu / gnome / kde entries for it. You can do it with beta FF as well. There are also some good tips out there on how to create an special profile for the beta version, to avoid problems.
I really hope some good soul some day maintain an unofficial repository for FF for Debian stable / testing.
Bye.
Iceweasel is often outdated (even for stable releases from FF) and buggy with some add-ons I use a lot. I found my peace by installing official FF binaries and creating respective update-alternatives / debian menu / gnome / kde entries for it. You can do it with beta FF as well. There are also some good tips out there on how to create an special profile for the beta version, to avoid problems.
I really hope some good soul some day maintain an unofficial repository for FF for Debian stable / testing.
Bye.
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Posted by Anonymous (88.181.xx.xx) on Thu 8 May 2008 at 21:43
If you want to avoid the problem with the plugins. Go in about:config and replace Iceweasel by Firefox.
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Posted by Anonymous (220.227.xx.xx) on Wed 18 Jun 2008 at 19:37
Firefox3 won't install for Debian Etch since etch has gtk2.8 while firefox 3 wants gtk2.10 onwards.
It should be easy to do with Lenny since i think it has the library.
Instead of getting deb package my suggestion is to:-
1. download the sources
2. untar it to the individual users (so that it doesn't mess with the iceweasel)
3. Run the launcher from there.
As for your plugins
link the plugins(rm -rf ~/firefox/plugins && ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ~/firefox/plugins)
It should be easy to do with Lenny since i think it has the library.
Instead of getting deb package my suggestion is to:-
1. download the sources
2. untar it to the individual users (so that it doesn't mess with the iceweasel)
3. Run the launcher from there.
As for your plugins
link the plugins(rm -rf ~/firefox/plugins && ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ~/firefox/plugins)
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Posted by Anonymous (209.234.xx.xx) on Wed 25 Jun 2008 at 16:38
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Posted by Anonymous (130.230.xx.xx) on Sat 12 Jul 2008 at 07:11
Iceweasel 3 is now in testing/lenny.
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Posted by Anonymous (124.107.xx.xx) on Mon 30 Jun 2008 at 08:35
Post above me is iceweasel3. go to http://dannybuntu.blogspot.com/2008/03/howto-install-firefox-3-be ta-4-in.html to install official firefox3. Title is firefox 3 beta 4 but it will install firefox 3 final
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Posted by Anonymous (212.22.xx.xx) on Tue 20 Jan 2009 at 12:20
Installed firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2 from the firefox site but could get it working on Debian/Lenny amd64. I thus had to reinstate iceweasel, iceweasel-gnome-support and iceweasel-l10-en-gb but found no instructions on how to uninstall/remove firefox hence this post:
To install, I copied the firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2 archive and extracted it in the following directory: /usr/lib which then created a sub-directory /usr/lib/firefox
To find out how many files in are present in the tar archive, use:-
host:/usr/lib# cat firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2 | tar xjv | wc -l
revealed 218 files in the tar archive
To find out how many files were copied to /usr/lib/firefox, cd use:-
host:/usr/lib# cd firefox
host:/usr/lib/firefox# find ./ -name \* -print | wc -l
This also reveled 218 files:
NB: You can't use ls -R to list files recursively because of directory groupings.
I therefore considered it safe simply to purge the /usr/lib/firefox directory to uninstall/remove firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2
host:/usr/lib/firefox# cd ..
host:/usr/lib# rm -rf ./firefox
Hope this helps someone.
Alphonse Ogulla
Nairobi, Kenya
To install, I copied the firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2 archive and extracted it in the following directory: /usr/lib which then created a sub-directory /usr/lib/firefox
To find out how many files in are present in the tar archive, use:-
host:/usr/lib# cat firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2 | tar xjv | wc -l
revealed 218 files in the tar archive
To find out how many files were copied to /usr/lib/firefox, cd use:-
host:/usr/lib# cd firefox
host:/usr/lib/firefox# find ./ -name \* -print | wc -l
This also reveled 218 files:
NB: You can't use ls -R to list files recursively because of directory groupings.
I therefore considered it safe simply to purge the /usr/lib/firefox directory to uninstall/remove firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2
host:/usr/lib/firefox# cd ..
host:/usr/lib# rm -rf ./firefox
Hope this helps someone.
Alphonse Ogulla
Nairobi, Kenya
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