Install Iceweasel Web Browser in Debian and Ubuntu

Oct 102006

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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http://www.fakeweb.fake mike fake

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

try to run the following command

#apt-get -f install
Robert Pawlowicz

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…
Anahita

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?
http://www.arunma.com iPhier

you can remove hunspell-en-us using
sudo apt-get remove hunspell-en-us
sudo apt-get autoremove
jobin

thanks
its working well
http://blog.dnjhome.com withanh

I’m having the same issue and removing hunspell-en-us doesn’t help. I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (machine name redacted)

root@computername:/tmp# apt-get remove hunspell-en-us
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-21
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
hunspell-en-us language-support-en language-support-writing-en
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
After this operation, 860kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 155195 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing language-support-en …
Removing language-support-writing-en …
Removing hunspell-en-us …
Processing triggers for python-gmenu …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache…
Processing triggers for python-support …
root@computername:/tmp# apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-2.6.32-21 linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
After this operation, 85.3MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 155178 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic …
Removing linux-headers-2.6.32-21 …
root@computername:/tmp# dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb
dpkg: regarding iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb containing iceweasel:
hunspell-en-ca 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
root@computername:/tmp#
http://blog.dnjhome.com withanh

Duh! Just noticed that it says hunspell-en-ca, guess I’d better remove that :~)
Pavan

Hey, I’m a an ubuntu 11.04 users , I n the second step of installation “sudo dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb”
I got following error :
dpkg: error processing iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb
Edwin

Installed nice in Ubuntu 9.10 after removing hunspell-en-us. Thanks.