"Lastly, for the real question: why are you on Lenny? Institution mandate? Narrow pipe? Fear of Testing breakage?" What do you suggest? Is sid good for a Desktop environment? :O I just want to upgrade e.g.: Iceweasel, because it has a bug, related to adblock plus element hiding helper....it's just a "little" thing, but theres already Firefox _3.5_. (I hope they the bug in that version)
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > On 2009-07-21 07:54, Soren Orel wrote: > >> Ok, I downloaded: >> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/iceweasel >> iceweasel_3.5.1-1_amd64.deb >> Then: >> dpkg -i iceweasel_3.5.1-1_amd64.deb >> > [snip] > >> >> >> So I must install a trillion dependencies from unstable, to get a normal >> up-to-date browser under Lenny? >> > > Yes. Running a mixed Lenny/experimental system is a recipe for disaster. > > I'd deinstall iceweasel and xulrunner, then install the FF binary directly > from mozilla.org. > > Same with OOo3 (though I'd look first try www.go-oo.org), if you want the > latest version. > > Lastly, for the real question: why are you on Lenny? Institution mandate? > Narrow pipe? Fear of Testing breakage? > > -- > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
