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Install Iceweasel Web Browser in Debian and Ubuntu

Posted by Admin on October 10th, 2006

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Iceweasel is a free software derivation of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Along with Gnuzilla it is the GNU attempt to create a version of Firefox which can be used by free software GNU/Linux and UNIX software distributions. It removes the unfree artwork and plugins that free software advocates considered to be problematic. Iceweasel is a fork of Firefox but will continue to synchronize with upstream releases in the future.

Installing Iceweasel in Debian

I have found Iceweasel debian packages from here

Download latest available package from this

#wget http://safeweb.sitesled.com/iceweasel/builds/iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

once you download this you can install using the following command

#dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

This will complete the installation.

If you want to open Iceweasel go to Applications—>Internet—>Iceweasel you can see this in the following screen

Iceweasel in Action

If you are using debian unstable version you can install using the following command

#apt-get install iceweasel iceweasel-gnome-support

Installing Iceweasel in Ubuntu

Download latest available package from this

sudo wget http://safeweb.sitesled.com/iceweasel/builds/iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

once you download this you can install using the following command

sudo dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

This will complete the installation.

If you want to open Iceweasel go to Applications—>Internet—>Iceweasel you can see this in the following screen

Iceweasel in Action

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4 Responses to “Install Iceweasel Web Browser in Debian and Ubuntu”

  1. mike fake Says:

    i have had a lot of problems with the dependency stuff, i’m using debian sarge.

  2. Admin Says:

    try to run the following command

    #apt-get -f install

  3. Robert Pawlowicz Says:

    I’m using Debian Etch on all the machines in an office and we’ve just been locked out of all the on-line banking facilities because Iceweasel is apparently not a recognised web-browser. Doh! Extremely inconvenient…

  4. Anahita Says:

    After the command “sudo dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb”, it give me this error:

    dpkg: regarding iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb containing iceweasel:
    hunspell-en-us conflicts with iceweasel (<< 2.0.0.3-2)
    iceweasel (version 1.5.0.8pre-2) is to be installed.
    dpkg: error processing iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb (–install):
    conflicting packages - not installing iceweasel
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

    Could you please tell me what I could do?

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