That is more than risky. 1) Iceape is EOL since 2013: https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2819 2) While Ubuntu is based on Debian, there's (sometimes) a huge difference in the software releases shipped: * libc6: 2.11 (Debian 6) vs. 2.21 (Ubuntu 15.10) * libssl: 0.9.8o vs. 1.0.2d * libgtk: 2.20.1 vs 2.24.28 So there's a good chance iceape won't even install, and if it does, you might experience strange behaviour, or nothing at all. Regards, /peter Am 25.02.2016 um 16:27 schrieb Bret Busby: > On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Yes, and no. You can run `apt-get -d install iceape`, and it will >> download the package, and the missing dependencies, to >> /var/cache/apt/archives/. However, if you want to install something on a >> machine without internet access you might be better off with apt-medium >> [1], although I never used that. >> >> And I'm sorry, but I don't understand your second question. I assume >> that you think that the security repository is independent of the >> others, but that's not so. A Debian installation usually uses 3 >> repositories together: >> * A "base" repo, containing the release packages >> * A "security" repo, containing security fixes for those packages >> * An "updates" repo that serves updates for non-security relevant bugs >> >> As always, we might be able to better help you if you can give us a >> description of what you want to do. >> >> Regards, >> /peter >> >> Am 25.02.2016 um 09:32 schrieb Bret Busby: >>> On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Searching for a single .deb & trying to install that is the way >>>> proprietary systems handle it. With Debian, and most other Linux >>>> distros, there's repositories, and tools to handle dependencies. Open a >>>> command line / terminal and enter >>>> sudo apt-get install iceape >>>> >>>> It will pull iceape, and all dependencies, from the Debian repos, and >>>> install them. >>>> >>>> Updates are handled similarily. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> /peter >>>> >>>> Am 25.02.2016 um 07:08 schrieb Bret Busby: >>>>> Hello. >>>>> >>>>> I searched for a .deb package, for iceape, so that I could download >>>>> the package for the iceape suite, to try to install it. >>>>> >>>>> Ahat I found, is apparently submerged in a "security pool". >>>>> >>>>> I found that what is apparently provided as the iceape suite .deb >>>>> package, is just something that has endless unsatisfiable >>>>> dependencies. >>>>> >>>>> Is an installable .deb package for the iceape suite, available? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Is there a way (a switch for the apt-get command?) to download all of >>> the dependencies? I have looked at man apt-get, and, that has an >>> option "download" (as opposed to install or find), but I could not >>> find, from the man entry for apt-get, how to download the package and >>> all of its dependencies; that is, to download the particular package, >>> and, its dependency packages, so that they can be stored, and, >>> installed (or, tried to be installed) on different systems as wanted. >>> >>> Also, does a means exist, for specifying a particular repository for >>> only the particular instantiation of the command, so that, for >>> example, as iceape is only in the security pool repository, to specify >>> only for the installation of iceape (or, if it can be done, for the >>> download of iceape and its dependencies, to a directory on the >>> computer), the particular repository path? >>> >>> >> >> > > Okay. > > Explicitly, what I want to try to do, and, the reason that I want to > know whether the repository can be specified for only, and, limited > to, a single instantiation of a download or install command, is to > try to install iceape on a Ubuntu installation. > > iceape has functionality that seamonkey does not have, and, the > specific functionality that I want, is the primary reason for me > wanting to try this. > > I do not know whether iceape and seamonkey can be concurrently > installed on the same system. > > With the LTS for Debian 6 (which I believe to be the latest version > operating system for which iceape is an available package), due to end > on Monday, I want to try an installation on a system, to install > iceape on a new installation of UbuntuMATE 15.10, so that I would > install UbuntuMATE on the system, and then try to install iceape. >
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