[vox-tech] Howto: run Mozilla 1.3 on Debian woody

[Mike Simons]

  I recently got irritated at the 1.0.0 Mozilla in stable (woody)... 


  If you want to upgrade to Mozilla 1.3 use the following in 
/etc/apt/sources.list:
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# Mozilla 1.3 backport from sid for woody
deb http://debian.relativ.org/ ./
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Then as root run:
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apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
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  Since I run a mixed stable/testing/unstable system I also need one of 
the following pin added to /etc/apt/preferences

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Package: *
Pin: origin debian.relativ.org
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  Warning the 1.3 source changes browser binary name from 'mozilla'
to 'mozilla-1.3', so you may want to create a link like:
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ln -s /usr/bin/mozilla-1.3 /usr/local/bin/mozilla
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  The 1.2.1 site below does not have this problem.
I didn't test the 1.1 site.


    Later,
      Mike Simons


  If you want a slightly older Mozilla 1.1 add the following lines to
/etc/apt/sources.list
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# Mozilla 1.1, Galeon backport
deb http://people.fsn.hu/~pasztor/debian woody mozilla
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  The 1.1 site includes Galeon which the others do not.

  1.2.1 is also available:
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# Mozilla 1.2.1 for woody
deb http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian/woody/kalem/ /
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  If you need the pin, change "debian.relativ.org" to the site source you 
use above.


  If you have problems with apt crashing with a message similar to:
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Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing python-pyme (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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Then add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf   
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APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
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