I've just got Debian 3.1 working, using FF 1.0.4 to post this, used synaptic to get it.
Does Debian offer the latest version of FF, 1.0.7? If so would I use Apt to get it? I re-loaded the synaptic repositories and 1.0.4 is the latest version.
I'm not too concerned if it is not available. Debian rocks!

It looks as if there are a few Debian repositories that have at least up to 1.0.6:

http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?q...arch%5B%5D=all

I know Ubuntu already has 1.0.7 (I see Ubuntu in your profile, too).

Yes, I've got FF 1.0.7 running on my Ubuntu box, it's great!
Here's a stupid n00b, Debian question. How do you get the 1.0.6 version? I updated Synaptic, it's not carrying it.
Perhaps using apt at a shell prompt?

Edit: added later, ignore my n00b question. I clicked on your link, saw the repository:-) Thanks for the link.

apt-get at the shell prompt is just a different version of Synaptic--it's doing the same thing. Do you see the link I gave you before? Add the appropriate repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Then reload and see what pops up in Synaptic.

If you have sarge security in your sources.list you already have it the last security update for it was basically 1.0.6 renamed back to 1.0.4 due to problems backporting the changes. If you want to get newer packages than are in Sarge then you will have to look around for backports at places like apt-get.org and backports.org where you will be able to get the newer packages compiled to run on our system otherwise you need to change the instances of sarge in your sources.list to testing the use apt-get dist-upgrade after updating of course then your entire system will be updated and you will be able to get the newer packages as they come into testing from unstable.

Hi aysiu and HappyTux,

Thank you for the replies. I'll try and update my repositories, aysiu. If I understand you, HappyTux, then I already have 1.0.6 if I'm running 1.0.4. I refreshed synaptic before installing 1.0.4.
I appreciate your replies, gentlemen!

You have it if you have this in your sources.list.


And have the version 1.0.4-2sarge3 installed.

BTW I was looking at the backports.org site and it looks like you can probably download 1.0.7 from there and use dpkg -i mozilla-firefox-????.deb and install it from the command line you may actually want to put the deb line for the site in your sources.list the guy who does the packages is a Debian developer so you won't be getting any broken half-assed packages from him.

Hey, thanks, HappyTux!
I just checked my synaptic repositories and I do have the security site there that you mentioned. I'm also running 1.0.4-2sarge3. So I'm up to date!

Well, technically it's the other way 'round: Synaptic is (like KPackage) a GUI front end for apt-get & the rest of the APT package management system.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1) is in unstable.

You can take a look at :
# Backports of various packages for Debian 3.1 Sarge
# Updated versions of Firefox and Thunderbird
# For more information visit http://debian.stdout.at/
deb http://debian.stdout.at/ ./

I've just noticed also that FF is version 1.0.4. So I've added deb http://debian.stdout.at/ ./ to my source list.

I get this message below when I do the apt-get upgrade.

'WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
libfreetype6 mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!'

Any ideas on this?

Thnx.

You have no need to worry if you've got security.debian.org in your sources.list. FF 1.0.4-2sarge5 already has the security fixes backported from 1.0.7.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-secur.../msg00231.html