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Hello everyone,

I have just installed Debian (lenny) to famliarize myself a bit with it before 6.0 is released. I am simply trying to install firefox, but aptitude is unable to find the package. I have tried changing my source.list file after looking at the sticky in the debian forum. Here my current /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20101127-18:32]/ lenny contrib main



# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20101127-18:32]/ lenny contrib main



deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main



deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib



deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib

deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib



deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

This is what I get when I type in apt-get install mozilla-firefox

Code:

localhost:/etc/apt# apt-get install mozilla-firefox

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

Package mozilla-firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

However the following packages replace it:

  iceweasel

E: Package mozilla-firefox has no installation candidate

localhost:/etc/apt#

Using just firefox as as the package name gives the same result. Any hint in the right direction would be very appreciated!

Firefox has been removed from Debian for sometime now,you can check Google for the reasons.
However,there is an unbranded Firefox-like browser called Iceweasel in the repositories you can use:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/iceweasel

As shown in the output from your terminal:

Code:

Package mozilla-firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

However the following packages replace it:

  iceweasel

So it should be as simple as:

Code:

aptitude install iceweasel

Or you could download and install Firefox from their website.

Quote:

Firefox has been removed from Debian for sometime now

+1

...but you can add Firefox (is it worth it???) see e.g. "How to Install Firefox in Debian Linux" - http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Firefox-in-Debian-Linux...

I use and prefer Chrome

Quote:

Firefox has been removed from Debian for sometime now

+1

...but you can add Firefox (is it worth it???) see e.g. "How to Install Firefox in Debian Linux" - http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Firefox-in-Debian-Linux...

I use and prefer Chrome

Quote:

Originally Posted by arochester (Post 4223292)

I use and prefer Chrome

I see that Chrome has the same "double posting" problem as Chromium...

Evo2.