[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing usable version of Firefox on Raspberry Pi
Ralph Green
sirable at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 05:08:54 CDT 2016
Howdy,
I am trying to setup a couple of Raspberry Pis with the current
distro of Raspbian, which is called Jessie. The problem is getting a
usable web browser. So far, I am stumped and I am hoping someone here
can show me what obvious thing I am missing.
Raspbian used to use a fork with no branding, which was called
iceweasel. Firefox broke cookie handling so badly starting in version
44 that I can't use it any more. The branding issues were resolved
and now the only binary version of firefox in the repository is
Firefox ver 45. So, I thought I would install the source package for
iceweasel 38, build a .deb and install it. I tried this:
apt-cache madison iceweasel and got back:
iceweasel | 38.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 |
http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main Sources
That looked good. It meant the version 38 source was seen. So, I
tried installing the source with:
apt-get source iceweasel=38.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 and I got back:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Picking 'firefox-esr' as source package instead of 'iceweasel'
E: Can not find version '38.8.0esr-1~deb8u1' of package 'iceweasel'
E: Unable to find a source package for firefox-esr
The archive seems to have the source code, to wit:
http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/i/iceweasel/
I think that line about picking firefox-esr may be telling me
something important, but I have not figured out what to do with the
information. Any suggestions?
Ralph
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