Brent Saner on 5 Nov 2007 03:52:41 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] speaking of non-distro stuff...

  • From: "Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] speaking of non-distro stuff...
  • Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 22:52:31 -0500
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does *buntu repos have separate iceweasel/firefox entries?

i found out recently that gentoo's portage has, in fact, two "firefoxes" (more accurately, two different licensing versions)- a "branded" one which can't be redistributed, and a more "gpl-friendly"(paraphrasing) version and you had to choose which.

(konqueror is.... mm. well, i'm not a fan. we'll put it that way. :)

are there repos for older releases? you could have probably snagged libstdc++ 5 from there... but not sure how buggy it'd be in such a new environment (probably wouldn't be that big a deal if you deb-srced it though).

On Nov 4, 2007 10:47 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
the default kubuntu install does not include firefox.  Konqueror is nice, but
there are way too many web sites where it just doesn't work.

But if you sudo aptitude install firefox, it wants to install gnome and much
of the ubuntu-desktop metapackage -- almost 100 packages.

So I grabbed firefox from the mozilla website.  But it doesn't run in gutsy
because it wants libstdc++.so.5, but Gutsy includes 6 but not 5.
Fortunately, I had 5 on another machine and could copy and link it.  But it
shouldn't be this hard to install something like firefox.  it just shouldn't.

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