Debian Backports: Upgrade Iceweasel to a Newer Version
In this article I will be discussing for my viewers how to upgrade Iceweasel (Iceweasel is Debian’s Mozilla Firefox package) from version 3.5.16-12 to version 10.0.2-1 on Debian Squeeze. Like many, I get complaints from Gmail or Google Apps stating that my browser is old and I need a newer version of Firefox to gain all of Google’s site features. Basically this tutorial will give you a more recent version of Mozilla Firefox so that you can have more modern web browsing on your Debian System. We will be using a combination of repository sources to complete this task.
Step 1:
First you need to edit your repositories. I like to do this using a terminal window and vim. You can also use gedit, nano, or any other text editor to do this. You will need to have sudo or root (su) privileges.
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines to your sources.list file and save your work.
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
Step 2:
Next you will need to update apt or aptitude’s indices. Do this by running an sudo apt-get update or sudo aptitude update. You will see apt/aptitude do its thing, resulting in a complaint stating you do not have the repository archive key for the mozilla debian repository. You can fix this by installing the package pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring.
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring
Step 3:
Finally you will be installing the newer version of Iceweasel, version 10.0.2-1. Do this by running sudo aptitude install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel. You should now have the newest version of Iceweasel on your system.
sudo aptitude install -t squeeze-backports
This completes this tutorial on upgrading Iceweasel on your Debian Squeeze System. As always, please post any questions or concerns in the comment section below. I will do my best to answer your questions.
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