Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:09 +0100, Antony Gelberg 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?
>
> Please read the Debian Reference. One of the main reasons to use Debian
> is to use software packaged from Debian repositories rather than
> downloading generic binaries and source.
>
It seems that "one of the main reasons to use Debian" might also be one
of the main reasons not to use Debian.
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