Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:19 -0500, Albert wrote:
> Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > Joseph Haig wrote:
> >
> >>--- Albert <albertwagner@cox.net> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>Firefox and Thunderbird are already in the Debian distribution. Try:
> >>
> >>$ apt-get install mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird
> >>
> >>... or install them via aptitude. Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > It does, I'm sure, but I think we should teach new users how to fish
> > more, rather than breastfeed them. No offence intended.
> >
> Oh, my. I've encountered the newbie police. I find it extremely
> humorous that someone on Debian, which hides the complexities of Linux,
maybe I missed it, but I've not heard that claim before
> struts around mocking newcomers to Debian as if they were newcomers to
> Linux. For the record, bonehead,
and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful
manner, but then you prob knew that already ;)
> I am probably here just long enough to
> install a 2.6.x kernel so that I might use this dist as host for
> building an LFS 6.1 system. My current LFS system is only 5.0.
>
>
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Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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