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In knoppix 7.2 the right click on the desktop icon, select the choice now called create link to application

To change the desktop icon, sudo gedit on file /home/knoppix/Desktop/Firefox (which is...

Updating post for progress for myself if need to remember and if anyone else has the same question. If you have a better approach, please post.

Never did figure out symlinks, but extracted...

Where would I begin to understand symlinks and how to list and create them? I've done some searches, but the results don't seem to start at the beginning.

Thanks.

With "file manager" I found KNOPPIX_FS/usr/bin There is a file called iceweasel which contains a script that is probably beyond me to duplicate and identify changes required for Firefox. With...

Might be harder to add a menu item than I thought - found this:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/threads/29036-Adding-to-the-Main-Menu-under-LXDE

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Rather than install FF and TB with the...

I'm not sure if the rebooting was necessary or if I had to allow scripts to run (noscripts).

Now I'm not sure if the install Flash was necessary or if the noscripts was the issue.

Not saying...

I created a directory named Apps and downloaded the .tar files for Firefox 9.0.1 and Thunderbird 9.0.1 from the Mozilla site. Navigated to the .tar file with File Manager, right clicked and...

Trying

aptitude update

Looks like command running .... and running ....

aptitude install firefox

yields:
No candidate version found for firefox

Well, I'm back. I ordered the knoppix 6.7.1 DVD and have installed it to a USB.

Have KeepNote running

Have SpiderOak running (sort of)

Iceweasel 6.0.2 and IceDove 3.1.13 do come up I'm...

I don't know how to mark this thread as solved and that might be too strong a label, but we succeeded. Thanks.

Sorry - got the treads mixed up - keepnote succeeded - I'll work on iceweasel next.

I'm not going to over think this, I'm just going the do each of klaus2008 (the champ)'s commands and check for a keepnote menu choice after each command.

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# sudo dpkg...

Tried this again after the keepnote attempt:

just this command

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# sudo apt-get -t testing install icewease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree...

, I believe I shut everything down and rebooted for good measure. Results do look different

[... previous lines omitted]

Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org stable-updates/non-free i386 Packages ...

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates/contrib Translation-en ...

In the "Internet" menu section, I'm seeing 3 choices:

Chromium Web Browser
Pidgin Internet Messenger
Terminal Server Client

I did a quick scan of the other menu sections and don't see...

I can't seem to edit the previous post, so I'm adding a little more information with this post.

I found the Synaptic Package Manager and a search does return firefox and the 4 packages, which look...

I've created a USB boot disk from a Knoppix 6.7 CD. The default browser is the Chromium web browser. How do I install Firefox?

I've tried the following from the root terminal:

sudo apt-get...