On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:17:12 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I found on wiki.debian.org reference to Debian Mozilla Team and > installed Iceweasel 5.0 from them. > > I used it until started getting "package not found" errors. On their web > site I found, all packages offered until recently gone. Some packages > for lower versions still offered. However neither of them are actually > available if you run apt-get. No announces/explanations. > > I've removed their package and downgraded to stable Iceweasel 3.5.16, > which unfortunately does not support 2 Firefox Add-ons of vital > importance for me. > > I'd love to use Iceweasel but badly need version 4 or higher. Is there > any reliable solution for this? > > Another question... Is Debian Mozilla Team officially associated with > Debian.org? > > I would be surprised if the answer is "yes". The sense of > responsibility of whoever is behind of this name is just way below the > zero.
I spent yesterday about two hours on trying and investigating, and then on googling. My /etc/apt/sources.list was perfectly OK. However, executing 'apt-get install -t squeeze-backports [package_name]' where [package_name] changed to every single package name listed on http://mozilla.debian.net, was repeatedly returning "Unable to locate package [package_name]'. I get frustrated, made my post here and left the problem as it was. A couple of hours later, while being in terminal and doing something else, I tried once again 'apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel-release and all at a sudden get the iceweasel 5.0 found, downloaded, and installed. What it was? It could be some backports server problem, packages not uploaded timely, or some discrepancy between backporst and http:// mozilla.debian.net servers, whatever else. Who knows?.. Switching back to Iceweasel 3.5?.. It's not only add-ons. Once you try versions 4 and 5 you'd never want 3.5 back. Ver. 4, and 5 ever more, are amazingly fast, leaving way back all predecessors and Google Chrome (which I do not like anyway). Well, for know I'm fine. However the experience makes me wonder if I'd like to depend on http://mozilla.debian.net. But then the only alternative would be to start using Firefox itself. This would be a pity. Thanks to all replied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ivkqve$v2n$1...@dough.gmane.org
