Re: [SLUG] upgrading icewease;/firefox in Debian

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2008 - 22:42:45 EST


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:12:43PM -0500, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> Does anyone know how I upgrade iceweasel/firefox from version 2 to version
> 3 in Debian? Is there a .deb package someplace or do I have to download
> and install the binaries from mozilla.org?

I don't know what version of Debian you're running, so it's hard to say
if FF 3 is available to you in Debian. However, on the assumption that
it is available, you just need to fire up aptitude or synaptic, and have
it "update" its local package database ("u" in aptitude). Then search
for iceweasel in aptitude/synaptic and see what version is now
advertised. If it's 3+, then just tell it to install.

Otherwise (if FF 3+ isn't available for the Debian version you're
tracking), you can try installing from mozilla.org. I may have done this
at one time; I don't recall. If you do it this way, I expect it will
install a statically linked executable, which will have a larger
memory footprint.

Paul

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