Re: firefox-37, where to put

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]:

[...]
> So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into 
> my home dirs bin subdir.  But thats likely not going to be great as it 
> probably looks someplace else for its libraries & such.

Iceweasel 37.0 is available in experimental:

iceweasel:
  Installed: 37.0-1
  Candidate: 37.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 37.0-1 0
        100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     31.6.0esr-1 0
        990 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

Just run:
apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel

You need at least
deb http://$YOUR_MIRROR/debian/ experimental main
in sources.list to get it.

Elimar
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