Does a repo provide IceCat?

silver.bullet at zoho.com silver.bullet at zoho.com
Thu Aug 6 14:35:04 UTC 2015


Hi,

does anybody know a PPA providing IceCat?

For the time being I installed it from gnu.org and made a desktop file [1].

Regards,
Ralf

[1]

GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

# cd /tmp/
# l=ftp://ftp.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de/gnu/gnuzilla/31.8.0/icecat-31.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
# wget $l $l.sig
# gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.uni-mainz.de --recv-keys D7E04784
# gpg --verify icecat-31.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2.sig icecat-31.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
# tar xjf icecat-31.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
# mv -i icecat /opt/icecat-31.8.0
# ln -s /opt/icecat-31.8.0/icecat /usr/local/bin/icecat

# cat /usr/share/applications/icecat.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/usr/local/bin/icecat %u
Icon=/opt/icecat-31.8.0/browser/icons/mozicon128.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Name=GNU IceCat
GenericName=Web Browser
MimeType=text/html
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Application;Network;





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