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    Install FireFox

    Is it possible to install firefox on a 3.3 HD install?

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    yup!

    as root (su in a user console or login as root)

    type

    apt-get install mozilla-firefox

    and it will do the rest!

    Cheers

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    I've done an apt-get update, but when I did apt-get install firefox it didnt work:
    Code:
    root@Knoppix:/mnt# apt-get install firefox
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://non-us.debian.org ./ Packages (/var/                   lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_%7ekitame_mozilla_._Packages) - stat (2 No such                    file or directory)
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org sid/i386/ Packages                    (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ebranden_packages_sid_i386_Packages) -                    stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
    E: Couldn't find package firefox
    what should I do next?

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    tsk tsk....you didn't follow what I wrote

    it's ok....the package for firefox is actually mozilla-firefox....which means you have to follow what I wrote up above exactly!

    so, do this (commands are in bold text):

    as root (su in a user console or login as root)

    type

    apt-get install mozilla-firefox

    and it will do the rest!

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    ahem, in my defense it was late and I was tired, but that's no excuse :(

    thanks for correcting me :) On another issue, Firefox takes up 30 MB??? Thought this was supposed to be the streamlined, light, advanced version of Mozilla!

    Ah whatever, I just want another browser (and Firefox is my current choice over IE and Opera).

    Code:
    root@Knoppix:/home/christopher# apt-get install mozilla-firefox
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    The following extra packages will be installed:
      zlib1g zlib1g-dev
    Recommended packages:
      xprt-xprintorg
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      mozilla-firefox
    The following packages will be upgraded
      zlib1g zlib1g-dev
    2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 654 not upgraded.
    Need to get 10.8MB of archives.
    After unpacking 30.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

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    Isn't here something that must be done before issuing the 'apt-get install mozilla-firefox' ciommand? --- This command didn't work for me.

    alex

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    1. you must be root, so 'su' before.
    2. update your package list, 'apt-get update' before doing the 'apt-get install mozilla-forefox'.

    That should work...

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    I finally got mozilla-firefox running but it took more than just those few steps that were presented in this thread

    What I did first is edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include these sources;

    deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable mozilla-firefox
    deb-src http://www.backports. org/debian stable mozilla-firefox

    I placed these two sources at the top of the list of the other deb sources.

    Then, I did the following as root:

    pon
    apt-get update

    I let it run until I saw the completion of the 'backports' lines, a matter of perhaps 30 seconds.

    then pressed the CTRL C keys to halt the update.

    Then, I did:

    apt-get install mozilla-firefox

    The installation took quite a while but now I have firefox running beautifully in knoppix (HD)

    My problem apparently was although I had several deb sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, none of them could supply firefox. It wasn't until I added:

    deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable mozilla-firefox
    deb-src http://www.backports. org/debian stable mozilla-firefox

    that apt-get install mozilla-firefox worked.

    I found those two sources by doing a Google search for 'firefox debian'

    I'm curious to know what deb source 'c123' used to download firefox. I have over a dozen sources and none of worked.

    Now, if only I can get mozilla-thunderbird installed

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    deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable mozilla-firefox

    instead of:
    deb-src http://www.backports. org/debian stable mozilla-firefox

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