Quote Originally Posted by styven
ran your text as root in the shell, only thing is i have installed a version of firefox, complete with desktop icon but it is not the version 1.0 i downloaded, any ideas.
1.0 isn't available yet in debian AFAIK. You can check what's installed with:
COLUMNS=140 dpkg -l|grep firefox

Also do install mozilla thunderbird and digikam the same way by putting digikam in place of firefox etc...
Short answer, yes. Just do the same thing by first searching, then checking the install with the -s switch flr simulation, if it looks ok then install.