Debian Package Management and Firefox

Fri Feb 13 04:57:58 UTC 2004

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:43:07PM -0500, Ilya Palagin wrote:
> Convert the tarball to deb with 'alien' utility, install it with dpkg 
> and create softlinks to /usr/bin

That won't create a quality package that deals with alternatives and the
like.  It creates a rather icky mess (although one the package manager
knows how to install/uninstall.)

> Actually, these tasks used to be completed by setting environment 
> variables like $BROWSER, but KDE and Gnome will definitely ignore it.

Certainly another option.

Lennart Sorensen
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