Re: [SOLVED] need help with Iceweasel.

[Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com>]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:20:02 wrote:


> 'apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
> 
> and all at a sudden get the iceweasel 5.0 found, downloaded, and 
> installed.

If you include the 'experimental' repos in your apt sources-list you can
avoid a lot of hassle with this command:

# apt-get -t experimental install iceweasel

You are likely to get a message similar to this one:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  xulrunner-2.0 libmozjs4d
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libmozjs5d xulrunner-5.0
Suggested packages:
  ttf-lyx latex-xft-fonts xfonts-mathml ttf-mathematica4.1 xprint
mozplugger
  libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmozjs5d xulrunner-5.0
The following packages will be upgraded:
  iceweasel
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 27.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

This looks like what you want.

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CK