| Art Alexion on 5 Nov 2007 12:47:50 -0000 |
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On Sunday, 04 November 2007 23:01, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2007, Art Alexion 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. > > I use konq and rarely run into problems, but I guess I must visit different > sites. I still do keep iceweasel around in case, though. It doesn't work with my bank. It doesn't work with my ISP's webmail. There are more sites, but I remember these important ones off the top of my head. > > > But if you sudo aptitude install firefox, it wants to install gnome and > > much of the ubuntu-desktop metapackage -- almost 100 packages. > > You can hardly fault Linux for being hard to use if you're intending to > recompile your software with different options. Last time I checked, you > can't do that _at all_ on any other major platform. That's why firefox used to install with static libraries. Like OOO still seems to. > > > 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. > > You're going to have to build your own weasel, as they say. I can walk you > through it some time if you need, it isn't all that hard. Don't use > anything from the firefox site, it's much better to use the exisiting > infrastructure in Debian/Ubuntu. Meet me on the IRC if possible, > otherwise, you can email me. I would recommend the former, so you can get > immediate feedback. Thanks, but I got it working. I was lucky because I had Xubuntu running on another machine and the lib was there. I just needed to complain that you shouldn't have to do that. I don't think most people would bother. They would just give up on Kubuntu. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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