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[trinity-users] Re: installing icecat from source packages

From: Michael via tde-users <ml-migration-agent@...>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:22:14 -0500
On Monday 14 September 2020 10:01:40 am William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> One of those headaches, for myself, is installing from source packages. I
> hate doing it, mainly because there are different archives, different
> methods for extraction, etc. No two sets of instructions for untar and
> install, etc., look alike. You may disagree, if you like, but that's how it
> goes with me.
>
> Anyway ... I managed to get icecat installed from source packages, the
> latest stable version, 60-something. (I saw a version 90-something on their
> site, but wonder about the 30 versions in-between that are missing ...)
>
> Right away, I noticed that a lot of problems totally vanished. I could
> explain in more detail, but some will believe me, and some will not,
> according to their own needs and wants.
>
> Now that I have it fresh in my mind, what needs to be done to make a
> successful installation, and seeing how useful it is, and wondering how I
> lived with lesser browsers, I thought maybe others might benefit from
> knowing the steps, now that I have it still fresh in my mind.
>
> If there is some way of sharing this list of steps, I would be glad to
> retrace; but I don't want to go to this trouble if nobody cares. It may be
> that a) it's already obvious how-to for most readers of this list, or b)
> others are already satisfied with their browsers, or c) don't care, for a
> host of other reasons or non-reasons.
>
> On a side note, I wonder if we could get a proper, working, up-to-date
> version of icecat into the repositories somewhere (as it has disappeared
> from Trisquel and others). I suppose a browser is not really a candidate
> for becoming a TDE-Trinity package? but it is a thought, since we already
> have Konqueror, which is a web browser as well as a file manager.

I only use Konq for a file manager, so an extra browser is welcome.

> Just making the offer, if anybody would find it useful. I don't even know
> where I would post it, that it could be found by those who are searching
> for it.

You can definitly put it on the TDE wiki as a sub-page of Tips And Tricks

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Tips_And_Tricks

If nothing else it won't get lost and you'll have reference to it in the 
future.  The wiki isn't hard but if you have questions, send me a mail.

Best,
Michael



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