On 2015-05-13, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > For some years I have been using the iceape suit but some months ago I > was advised the browser was a security risk - it does always start with > a notice it should be updated and contains a link to firefox. > > With the successful upgrade to Jessie I believe it has been discontinued. > On a new computer with Jessie installed apt-cache search does not find > iceape. On this computer just upgraded from wheezy to jessie apt-cache > search still finds iceape. A carryover from wheezy?
Sounds like it. Do you still have any entries in the file /etc/apt/sources.list which refer to wheezy? > > At any rate I have switched to using iceweasel and icedove. I would > like icedove to import all the information from iceape mail & newsgroups > but the import option only looks for seamonkey. > > Apparently I did use icedove from 2009 to 2011 so it has remained > installed through successive dist-upgrades. It has stored > messages from that period. The old stored messages are no longer of > interest. > > Perhaps the solution is to purge icedove and then reinstall it? A new > installation might see and import information from from iceape? I doubt it. Reinstalling will only affect system-wide settings, if at all. The mail data is stored in your home directory. > > Is there perhaps a better way to do this from the hidden iceape > directories? Try renaming them, e.g., .iceape to .seamonkey. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnml9sed.1qm.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
