Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird
root wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:11 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>
>>Albert wrote:
>>
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>>>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
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>
> I see only old versions of firefox and tbird. I want 1.0.6, not 1.0.2.
Debian stable doesn't contain the latest versions of software. If you
require such, then please consider running testing or unstable (but note
that these are not suitable for a new Debian user, are not supported and
may break), or an alternative Debian-based distribution such as Ubuntu
or Knoppix.
Also, please inform yourself. http://www.debian.org/releases
It's also probably a good idea not to send mail as root.
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