Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 08:44 -0500, root wrote:
> 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.
>
I presume you've checked out the diff between stable and unstable?
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