antiX does not come with netsurf browser installed. You can install it via synaptic. You want the latest netsurf, but it is not available (yet) in Debian.
So you have 4 choices.

1. Use what is in Debian/antiX repos.
2. Wait for the version you want to enter the repos and then install it.
3. Try to compile and install it yourself
4. Hope somebody else will compile and build it for you.

anticapitalista wrote:antiX does not come with netsurf browser installed. You can install it via synaptic. You want the latest netsurf, but it is not available (yet) in Debian.
So you have 4 choices.

1. Use what is in Debian/antiX repos.
2. Wait for the version you want to enter the repos and then install it.
3. Try to compile and install it yourself
4. Hope somebody else will compile and build it for you.

Thank you Anticapitalista...
If It really bothered me which it don't, I would go through hoops to fix it... as I stated way back in the beginning it is an old box, antix runs on it, netsurf is what I must use due to memory issues... It would be nice to have the new one, but i can wait.....

Maybe you can wait, but your NEVER SOLVED post didn't help. It antagonised some people. (deliberately?)

anticapitalista wrote:Maybe you can wait, but your NEVER SOLVED post didn't help. It antagonised some people. (deliberately?)

I can't mark something solved that isn't now can I...
however feel free to delete it I don't mind....
I was told to post it like i did to get help, I never got help, so I marked it never solved to see if I could find help....
if it pissed someone off oh well, It just goes to show you who your members are, if they are quick to get mad over a post I wouldn't want them on my team that is for sure....
I think this post has outlived it's usefulness, please delete the thread....

This thread has some useful information. Deleting it would leave others with unanswered questions, and no way to attempt to find a solution.

The big question"Why are we here?" was been asked many times before. And there are many answers to this one question. Yet the answer we want may never come.

I looked into trying to compile netsurf 3.0, and I think I discovered why no one packages the thing. compiling it is a PITA, and only the arch people would likely bother. You have to compile not only the source, but also each of 8 or so libraries they use as well, which are not included in the source package, rather you have to get the libraries off git, individually. That plus almost 50 mb of linux -dev packages. I ran into dependency hell with javascript libraries though, so I stopped.

Its not your usual"make install" scenario.

Their effort to be truly cross-platform-cross-architecture is impressive though.