john73
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Posted: Oct. 17 2004,04:59 |
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Actually Firefox 1.01Pre needs GTK2 and is in the Debian experimental repository, its actually smaller and more stable than 0.93, however most the dependacies are all in the unstable and exp branches. In order to get it you will have to go and edit your Apt configuration to include the experimental and unstable branches in order to get the latest version of Firefox. /etc/apt/sources.list is the file you need to edit.
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/web/mozilla-firefox has a list of what you will need.
Once you have done this you will open a shell and then 'apt-get install mozilla-firefox' , the package will break and then starting with libpango apt-get install all the broken dependancies until you get GTK 2.0 and other missing dependancies- this may break/cause apt to remove some other aps..
Finally you either apt-get install it again or you download the GTK installer to a place like /root or /home (Name of the user) unpack it using the tar command from a terminal session, cd to the new directory,b su or sudo root, and run the installer ./ firefox-installer. I assume you already have downloaded the installer so another download isn't needed.
Now is all this worth it? Well the .9X version has several critical security flaws in it which is fixed in the 1.XPre versions.
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