On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:33PM +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > Only Etch supports amd64, so I was forced to use Etch. > There is an unofficial Sarge release for amd64. I use it on a couple of servers and many Debian users the unofficial Sarge with no problems. > Command I have used: > apt-get install firefox > > NOT > apt-get install iceweasel > > I knew exactly what I was doing, because my friend told me that there will > be no longer firefox in debian, instead of it will be iceweasel, so I was > curious what will happen after typing: ^^^^^^^ Hmm. > apt-get install firefox > > There is no longer firefox in debian etch, so after typing: > apt-get install firefox > I would like to see announcement: Firefox packages are no longer present in > debian distribution, please try iceweasel. > OK. Here are the announcements: http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2006/msg00044.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00328.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/10/msg00665.html The debian-news item is from mid-October of 2006. There was also Lots of discussion about it on various Debian mailing lists. > Do you see a difference? > Nope. > I don't use aptitude, because I prefer command line. > OK. Then 'aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade' will work just the same. Of course, it won't tell you *why* since you are not in the aptitude browser, but aptitude works on the command line just like apt-get and keeps better track of things to boot. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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