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Icecat in linux package manager

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From: "M.R.P. zensky" <wintermute24x7 <at> icloud.com>
To: bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org
Subject: Icecat in linux package manager
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:09:52 -0700

Hello I love Icecat but wish it was easier to install. I wish that it was available in a linux package manager. What do you think? Is their anything that I could do to get it in the linux package manager?

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From: Amin Bandali <bandali <at> gnu.org>
To: "M.R.P. zensky via bug-gnuzilla" via GNUzilla bug reports
 <bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "M.R.P. zensky" <wintermute24x7 <at> icloud.com>
Subject: Re: bug#40973: Icecat in linux package manager
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:44:16 -0400

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Hello,

"M.R.P. zensky via bug-gnuzilla" via GNUzilla bug reports
<bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello I love Icecat but wish it was easier to install. I wish that it
> was available in a linux package manager. What do you think? Is their
> anything that I could do to get it in the linux package manager?

Thank you.  GNU IceCat is packaged in a number of distros and/or package
managers, including Trisquel and GNU Guix.  The Trisquel package is
currently very much out of date; but the Guix package is up-to-date,
only a few commits behind the latest commit on the 68 branch of our
gnuzilla.git repository.

Feel free to file a request on the bug tracker of your favourite
GNU/Linux distribution, asking them to package GNU IceCat.  We would be
happy to work with the package maintainers looking to package GNU IceCat
for their distro, helping answers any questions or requests they may
have if they get in touch with us on our mailing lists. :-)

Hope this helps.

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From: bill-auger <bill-auger <at> peers.community>
To: bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org
Cc: "M.R.P. zensky" <wintermute24x7 <at> icloud.com>
Subject: Re: bug#40973: Icecat in linux package manager
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:36:53 -0400

this, just to clarify Amin's reply, pedantically - it is
important to note that there is no: "the linux package manager"
- every distro strain has it's own package manager and packages;
which are maintained by that distro and generally usable only
with that package manager - in this context, "linux" is but one
package among thousands - it is usually moot helpful to refer
to your operating system by it's formal name, such as arch,
debian, ubuntu, fedora, suse, etc

most of the FSF-approved distros have icecat already; so the
simplest solution, is to use one of the FSF-approved distros,
instead of the one you are using now - for other distros, it is
upon users to request to their distro maintainers, that icecat
be packaged - in the case of the mint->ubuntu->debian strain,
there is a packaging request open for several years; but it has
yet to be accepted into debian - AFAIK, fedora is the only distro
which is not FSF-approved, which has an icecat package for their
users

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