I just installed M8.5 and I can't seem to find firefox to install. How do you install firefox?

I did a:
# apt-get install firefox

and it said it's not there. where is it?

hello vinoman use: then install debian's version of firefox

ICE-M wrote:hello vinoman use:

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apt-get update

then install debian's version of firefox

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apt-get install iceweasel

thanks, but I thought I installed firefox on a earlier version of antiX even though Iceweasel is the same.

The difference nowadays is that FF is at version 3.6 (which accepts those fancy themes, 'personas').
If you want it, download the .tar.gz for Linux from mozilla, extract it to /opt and then set-up the menu to open /opt/firefox/firefox and you will find the icons in /opt/firefox/icons.
Actually you may leave firefox's folder anywhere you like, I'm suggesting /opt because that's the default directory for 'extra' applications.

vinoman, you should also link the Flash player plugin for it to work. In a root terminal and also create /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop obs - to create other .desktop files when you need, you can run

secipolla wrote:vinoman, you should also link the Flash player plugin for it to work. In a root terminal

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ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /opt/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

and also create /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mozilla Firefox
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GTK;WebBrowser;Network;
Icon=/opt/firefox/chrome/icons/default/default48.png

obs - to create other .desktop files when you need, you can run

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gksu adddesktop.sh

Thank you, but where is this to adjust? is this to put an icon on the desktop?

This is to put an entry in IceWM/Fluxbox or Gnome menus.