Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:33PM +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
Only Etch supports amd64, so I was forced to use Etch.

There is an unofficial Sarge release for amd64. I use it on a couple of
servers and many Debian users the unofficial Sarge with no problems.

Command I have used:
apt-get install firefox

NOT
apt-get install iceweasel

I knew exactly what I was doing, because my friend told me that there will
be no longer firefox in debian, instead of it will be iceweasel, so I was
curious what will happen after typing:
^^^^^^^

Hmm.

apt-get install firefox

There is no longer firefox in debian etch, so after typing:
apt-get install firefox
I would like to see announcement: Firefox packages are no longer present in
debian distribution, please try iceweasel.

OK. Here are the announcements:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2006/msg00044.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00328.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/10/msg00665.html

The debian-news item is from mid-October of 2006. There was also Lots
of discussion about it on various Debian mailing lists.

Do you see a difference?

Nope.

I don't use aptitude, because I prefer command line.

OK. Then 'aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade' will work just the
same. Of course, it won't tell you *why* since you are not in the
aptitude browser, but aptitude works on the command line just like
apt-get and keeps better track of things to boot.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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