Firefox does not seem to want to install in Debian
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Firefox does not seem to want to install in Debian
Currently, I am running Iceweasel as a web browser. Here is the thing about it though, is it is quite out of date (technically it is version 7 of Firefox . . .) and I was going to install the newest Firefox, but when I try to run the "Firefox" executable, it says there is no file or directory. there IS a file called Firefox, and that, to what I am aware of is the file I am supposed to run, so I do not know why it is saying this to me.
If you get that error message it usually means that you try to run 64 bit software on a 32 bit system or 32 bit software or a 64 bit system without multilib support. Follow the instructions Firerat gave you and you should be fine.
By the way, although Iceweasel is technically an old version of Firefox, all the security patches get backported.
If you still want the latest version, i also recommend following Firerat's advice. I used that repo for a long time to get a rolling release of iceweasel based on the latest stable release of Firefox. It worked well.
The advantage of using it over manually installing Firefox is, that with Firefox, you'll have to manually uninstall and then install each new release. With the repo, you will be kept up to date, as long as you 'aptitude safe-upgrade' when needed.
By the way, although Iceweasel is technically an old version of Firefox, all the security patches get backported.
If you still want the latest version, i also recommend following Firerat's advice. I used that repo for a long time to get a rolling release of iceweasel based on the latest stable release of Firefox. It worked well.
The advantage of using it over manually installing Firefox is, that with Firefox, you'll have to manually uninstall and then install each new release. With the repo, you will be kept up to date, as long as you 'aptitude safe-upgrade' when needed.
Thank you for all of the responses. The only reason I need it to be newer is because I was going to install a few extentions, but they all seem to require a newer version of Firefox. Also, to TobiSGD,
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Originally Posted by TobiSGD
If you get that error message it usually means that you try to run 64 bit software on a 32 bit system or 32 bit software or a 64 bit system without multilib support. Follow the instructions Firerat gave you and you should be fine.
I am almost positive I am running a 64 bit OS (and I am running a x86 architecture), but, how would I get "multilib" support?
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