Hello,

I've tried a few of the other Myth* distros and heard great things about KM so I wanted to give it a shot. However, at the command prompt when I try to install firefox it tells me that it isn't a recognized package.

Is there a repo I need to update or configure to load more packages?

Thanks for your help.

Hi,
There are a couple of steps you will need to do to get firefox installed.
All steps as root, su -
first edit sources and remove the un from the first source item:
nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list
load the repository inventory:
apt-get update
install a couple of tools:
apt-get install synaptic
apt-get install firefox

The trick to be aware of is to check to ensure it is only going to install, no updates, no removals. Some packages may not show issues until they are being "unwrapped and installed" One such case is thunderbird, all goes well until it tries to add the dictionary. You can use synaptic to remove the offending package as you are block from future additions until it is fixed. You can use synaptic to install packages also, just watch carefully for the install items as mentioned earlier.

You may want to add flash and the jre also using synaptic. use su (no -) and then you can run it from an xterm.
While at root power, I also add a hot key to call firefox.
echo "Mod1 w :ExecCommand mozilla" >> /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys
When finished, restart the xserver (ctl alt bksp) and once back at the menus, press alt w to bring up firefox
You can hide / unhide firefox with an alt tab

Mike

Firefox in Debian is called iceweasel. You will need to apt-get install iceweasel

This is obvious if you do an apt-cache search firefox.

Cheers

Mike

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Hi,

manicmike is correct with the name but the package manager automatically substitutes the iceweasle.

Mike

Thanks guys, I will try it now that I am home.

Thanks for your input, I'll let you know how it turned out!

I put it on my R5.5 box simply by downloading the package from www.firefox.com and launching it from the shell:



That'll bring up the webpage. Now hit space twice, position your cursor over the "Linux (8.7MB)" link and hit the right arrow key to download. Then save it to disk and exit lynx by hitting "Q" when it's finished. This should result in the firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2 archive downloaded to your /home/<user>



That will unpack it. To use it simply:



Worked for me

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I installed firefox without difficulty by using the lynx www.firefox.com instruction from above. I have a couple of questions.

Are all the files from firefox in /home/mythtv/firefox and /root/.mozilla/firefox?

How do I install flash?

How do I remove firefox cleanly?

rkshack

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Here's a tip on which way is best: Always use a debian package if one is available (and one is). Uninstalling and upgrading are then trivial. Flash is then installed the same way. It is in the non-free section.

You will have to read the README file that came with the downloaded binary for how to get rid of it cleanly. The flash player should probably be manually installed too. Go to adobe.com and it will prompt you to the download location.

Mike

P.S. Don't run firefox as root. Very dangerous.

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After it is installed should one go back and add the un back into the sources?

What "un". Should be no need.

I was unsure of when to use stable and when to use unstable in the sources list. Knoppmyth came defaulted with unstable in the sources list, but that doesn't work for installing firefox. So I take it there is no reason to ever change it back to unstable.

firefox isn't firefox in debian... it's 'iceweasel' so that might explain why you're not finding a 'firefox' package.

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Hi,

Back in '08, Jul 17, 2008 to be exact, I dont' believe R5.5 was released yet. In R5F27 the sources.list on my machine it had the "un"stable, at least in my install. For R5.5 no change was needed.

I load several apps & games and one of the first is firefox. The apt-get was smart enough to actually pull iceweasle and install that app even if I told it to apt-get install firefox ..

As with anything you may add to your KM machine, becareful as it can hose it real quick. I do not let it upgrade nor remove pacakges with only a couple of exceptions like pppconfig, setserial and have had no ill effects that I know about.

A tough one to get going was openoffice.
Mike

@mjl - I remember a time when 'apt-get install firefox' worked as well and I believe it was back on R5F27. If you search 'firefox' over at packages.debian.net, it seems like only the etch (i.e. stable repo) gets a transition package for firefox. All the other ones have switched to 'iceweasel.'

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I just followed your directions using an xterm window in the Fluxbox desktop and they worked.
I noticed that there is no kind of fluxbox program menu header was created after doing this - like it would be if we installed using apt-get.
Does that mean that you would have to go to a xterm window and type "./firefox" every time you want to run Firefox?
Is there a way to make a Fluxbox program header that could be clicked on in R5.5?

Eric

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