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Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!



On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:11 +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
> Answers:
> Etch
> apt-get
> 
> I was informed by apt-get that Iceweasel package will be installed,
> but I wasn't informed that instead of Firefox and it is a problem!
> If I would like to uninstall (even current version of) Firefox I would
> do it myself. 

Here is your command:

aptitude install firefox_ \
 firefox-gnome-support_ \
 iceweasel_ \
 iceweasel-gnome-support_ \
 epiphany-browser+ \
 epiphany-extensions+

See I have included epiphany-browser and its extensions for you, as it
would break dependencies and cause you more pain to read through the
fixes. BTW, the "_" means to purge the packages with aptitude.

With apt-get you'll need to do it in two steps:

        apt-get install epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions
        apt-get remove --purge \
        	firefox \
        	firefox-gnome-support \
        	iceweasel \
        	iceweasel-gnome-support

That should do it. Then go down and download the Mozilla statically
compiled binary and install it. And goodbye support for automatic
updates (security or otherwise) from Debian.

and Just for the record, I have been using Iceweasel since the day it
dropped into Sid. There have only been a couple of minor problems with
extensions (even less than Firefox has with them)
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