[ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com
Thu May 28 20:32:59 BST 2009


2009/5/28 Matthew Daubney <matt at daubers.co.uk>:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:03 +0100, John wrote:
>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> Sorry its taken me so long to get back to you. I opened FF through a
>> terminal, but nothing happens. I think its because the whole thing
>> crashes so the terminal gets closed when I have to force close the hole
>> thing.
>>
>> Not sure what else I can do for this. My laptop is a crap laptop, it
>> maybe that it just wont work in a VM, which is a shame because I quite
>> like using it that way. I will keep trying though, to see if I can get
>> it to work.
>>
>> John.
>>
>
> Hi John,
>
> No worries about the time, I'm not entirely sure why firefox is doing
> that. The only suggestion I can think of is try a slightly lighter
> browser, such as Epiphany (it's in the repos) and see if you get the
> same problem.
>
> Sorry that's not much help!
>
> -Matt Daubney
>
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Just to point out - don't install the package called 'epiphany' and
expect it to be the web browser! I got caught by that once.

The package you want is called 'epiphany-browser'.

Cofion,
Neil.



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