Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

[root <albertwagner@cox.net>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:11 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Albert wrote:
> 
> > I am a new user of Debian.  My first task after system install is to 
> > install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7.  It's 
> > a piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, 
> > but I have no idea how I might then wrap them with an icon and to get 
> > them to show in the menus.  Do debian users not do this sort of 
> > thing?  If so, could someone point me to the appropriate documentation?
> 
> You guessed it right. Debian users do not do all these things. The 
> maintainers take care of these trivial things for us. To install firefox 
> and and thunderbird all you need to do is run the following command with 
> root privileges
> 
> apt-get install mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird

I see only old versions of firefox and tbird.  I want 1.0.6, not 1.0.2.