On Monday 14 September 2020 10:01:40 am William Morder via tde-users wrote: > One of those headaches, for myself, is installing from source packages. I > hate doing it, mainly because there are different archives, different > methods for extraction, etc. No two sets of instructions for untar and > install, etc., look alike. You may disagree, if you like, but that's how it > goes with me. > > Anyway ... I managed to get icecat installed from source packages, the > latest stable version, 60-something. (I saw a version 90-something on their > site, but wonder about the 30 versions in-between that are missing ...) > > Right away, I noticed that a lot of problems totally vanished. I could > explain in more detail, but some will believe me, and some will not, > according to their own needs and wants. > > Now that I have it fresh in my mind, what needs to be done to make a > successful installation, and seeing how useful it is, and wondering how I > lived with lesser browsers, I thought maybe others might benefit from > knowing the steps, now that I have it still fresh in my mind. > > If there is some way of sharing this list of steps, I would be glad to > retrace; but I don't want to go to this trouble if nobody cares. It may be > that a) it's already obvious how-to for most readers of this list, or b) > others are already satisfied with their browsers, or c) don't care, for a > host of other reasons or non-reasons. > > On a side note, I wonder if we could get a proper, working, up-to-date > version of icecat into the repositories somewhere (as it has disappeared > from Trisquel and others). I suppose a browser is not really a candidate > for becoming a TDE-Trinity package? but it is a thought, since we already > have Konqueror, which is a web browser as well as a file manager. I only use Konq for a file manager, so an extra browser is welcome. > Just making the offer, if anybody would find it useful. I don't even know > where I would post it, that it could be found by those who are searching > for it. You can definitly put it on the TDE wiki as a sub-page of Tips And Tricks https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Tips_And_Tricks If nothing else it won't get lost and you'll have reference to it in the future. The wiki isn't hard but if you have questions, send me a mail. Best, Michael _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
