On 2020-09-14 12:48:52 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2020, 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Bill > > > > jabber/xmpp > > dr_mojo_contendo@... > > _______________________________________________ > > If only hhtml could be update to start using kong as a browser again. I > really miss it. > > Kate > I'll second that! Leslie _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...