Firefox repository?

aquaboot · 11-03-2013, 09:10 PM

Hi All,

I'd like to install the Firefox binary and am wondering if I can just do so from a repository so it gets regular updates. Help appreciated. BTW- can we please skip comments about Iceweasel for reasons left unmentioned? :-)

Thanks Much,

ab

TobiSGD · 11-03-2013, 09:19 PM

I think you will to have to do that manually. There is a repo for Iceweasel, but I am not aware of an extra repo for Firefox. If you run Debian Testing it may be possible to get Firefox from LMDE, for Stable I don't know if that will work, but normally you shouldn't mix Stable with Testing.

snowday · 11-04-2013, 07:05 AM

Back in my Debian days I used: http://mozilla.debian.net/

aus9 · 11-04-2013, 07:23 AM

just download the bz2 file from firefox site
unpack it into your home folder
create a desktop entry or run it from a terminal

then edit the config to check for updates and choose either auto updates or advise you etc

Emmanuel_uk · 11-14-2013, 03:19 PM

Not a fantastic idea, but this had a firefox deb package

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import

Randicus Draco Albus · 11-14-2013, 08:44 PM

"Not a fantastic idea" is a gargantuan understatement. Using third-party repositories is "risky". (Another gross understatement.)

sgage · 11-15-2013, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aquaboot

Hi All,

I'd like to install the Firefox binary and am wondering if I can just do so from a repository so it gets regular updates. Help appreciated. BTW- can we please skip comments about Iceweasel for reasons left unmentioned? :-)

Thanks Much,

ab

To Install Latest Firefox on Debian
===================================

apt-get remove iceweasel

echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...la/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

apt-get update

apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Firerat · 11-15-2013, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgage

To Install Latest Firefox on Debian
===================================

apt-get remove iceweasel

echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...la/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

apt-get update

apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

NO

use
http://mozilla.debian.net/

AND
why use

Code:

 | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

??

Code:

>> /etc/apt/sources.list

tee is pointless here, it is just appending a file and stdout
you are then sending stdout to /dev/null
why?

sgage · 11-15-2013, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firerat

NO

use
http://mozilla.debian.net/

He wants Firefox, not Iceweasel.

Firerat · 11-15-2013, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgage

He wants Firefox, not Iceweasel.

tell me the difference between Firefox and iceweasel

sgage · 11-15-2013, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firerat

tell me the difference between Firefox and iceweasel

A name, some artwork, whatever.

I was just trying to answer the OP's question.

Firerat · 11-15-2013, 09:52 AM

that is right, essentially none

see History and origin of name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozill...Debian_project

sgage · 11-15-2013, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firerat

that is right, essentially none

see History and origin of name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozill...Debian_project

Yes, I've read that.

In any case, I am now back on Iceweasel, version 25.0, just to make the Debian godz happy (and out of idle curiousity).

qrange · 11-17-2013, 08:40 AM

um, sorry to intrude.
is there an easy way of installing Iceweasel from unstable in Debian testing, without adding whole unstable repo in sources.list?
(don't have flatrate here, simple 'apt-get update' eats a lot of net)

TobiSGD · 11-17-2013, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qrange

um, sorry to intrude.
is there an easy way of installing Iceweasel from unstable in Debian testing, without adding whole unstable repo in sources.list?
(don't have flatrate here, simple 'apt-get update' eats a lot of net)

Add the Unstable repo and pin it to a lower priority than the Testing repo. Then use the -t option of apt-get to install Iceweasel from the unstable repo.