Iceweasel 4 on Debian Squeeze/Wheezy
For those of you who don’t know what Iceweasel is, it’s written in Debian’s Wiki[0]:
Iceweasel is a fork Mozilla Firefox[1] with the following purpose :
1. backporting of security fixes to declared Debian stable version.
2. no inclusion of trademarked Mozilla artwork (because of #1 above)
Beyond that, they will be basically identical. (quoting Roberto C. Sanchez post in debian-devel mailing list)
Iceweasel’s (and Firefox’s) latest version, 4.0, was recently released[2], on Mach 22nd, and i’ve just upgraded Iceweasel 3.6 to Iceweasel 4.0 on my Debian Wheezy.
If you’d like to upgrade yours, follow the steps bellow.
1. Add Mozilla’s repository to sources.list
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and add the repository’s address:
1 | deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-4.0 |
Even though it’s Squeeze’s repository, it worked fine on my Wheezy.
You can type the following command to add it:
1 | # echo "deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-4.0" >> /etc/apt/sources.list |
2. Update packages list
1 | # aptitude update |
3. Install Iceweasel 4
You can check the version of iceweasel with the command bellow:
1 | # aptitude show iceweasel |
Install it with the following command:
1 | # aptitude install iceweasel |
Wait for it to finish and happy surfing!
Links/Sources:
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
[1] http://mozilla.com/firefox
[2] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/22/mozilla-launches-firefox-4-and-delivers-a-fast-sleek-and-customizable-browsing-experience-to-more-than-400-million-users-worldwide-2/
[3] http://mozilla.debian.net/
