Mozilla and SSL on Debian

vegas · 11-12-2003, 08:57 PM

Hello everyone, this is my first post here. Earlier this week I successfully installed Debian woody on my computer and everything works fine (as far as I can tell) except that when I am using mozilla it doesn't seem to want to use SSL. Is there some switch I need to flick to get this to work or something that needs to be installed (a ssl package maybe)? I'm really sorry if this problem seems a little bit silly to the rest of you but I am just learning at the moment, being but a simple refugee from Windowsland.

TigerOC · 11-13-2003, 02:14 AM

Check mozilla edit -> Preferences ->Privacy & Security ->SSL. If they are checked then did you install ssh during install?

adz · 11-13-2003, 06:41 AM

The cause may be that in debian the SSL package is separate to the rest of mozilla. In fact they're all separate. The packages are:

"mozilla-browser": Just the browser.
"mozilla-mailnews": The email/news client.
"mozilla-psm": The mozilla personal security manager. <--- This is probably missing.

To install it try an apt-get install mozilla-psm.

vegas · 11-13-2003, 08:11 AM

TigerOC - The boxes are all checked. I am pretty sure ssh was installed, when I type 'ssh' at the shell prompt it brings up help for ssh so I am pretty confident it is there.

adz - I tried doing the apt-get but it told me that it already had the latest mozilla-psm.

Thanks for the quick replies guys!

adz · 11-13-2003, 07:29 PM

What are you trying to do with mozilla? Are you going to a secure site and it wont let you in?

vegas · 11-14-2003, 01:18 AM

I am so embarassed.

As it turns out the sites I was expecting to have ssl on them didn't in actual fact have ssl and ssl in mozilla works perfectly

I am really sorry for wasting everyone's time, I will do much better research before my next query.

*crawls under a rock*