New - Iceape in Repository Broken

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 16:34:15 UTC 2014


On 5 March 2014 16:21, M.Ross <mrossarr at gmx.com> wrote:
> Re: New - Iceape in Repository Broken
>
>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Colin Law wrote:
>
>
>> On 26 February 2014 17:04, M.Ross <mrossarr at gmx.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Re: New - Iceape in Repository Broken
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>> On 26 February 2014 16:24, M.Ross <mrossarr at gmx.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> New - Iceape in Repository Broken
>>>>>
>>>>> Not authenticated either. Is anybody else aware of this?
>>>>> Need it be reported, or is it already.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Iceape is a Debian program. It is a renamed version of Mozilla
>>>> Seamonkey, because Debian's Free Software rules are incompatible with
>>>> Mozilla's trademark use.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, Thank You, I know that, so I must wonder why it is offered for
>>> install via Ubuntu Repos. I may misunderstand the extent of those repos.,
>>> via Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Cntr.
>>
>>
>> I can't see iceape in the 12.04 ubuntu repositories.  What do you see if
>> you run apt-cache policy iceape
>
>
> -snip-
> ... $ apt-cache policy iceape
> iceape:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 2.0.11-17
>   Version table:
>      2.0.11-17 0
>         500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ squeeze/updates/main

Right, so it is not in the Ubuntu repositories.  At some point you
have added the debian security repo.  So there is no reason why it
should install successfully in Ubuntu.

Colin




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