I am using Firefox 28 that came with MX-14. I want to update it to the latest version 31. When I go to update it, it keeps searching for the server to get the updates from. What should I do to fix this? Everything else is working great except for Firefox.

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or run the static Firefox bz2 download like I do in AntiX 11 box in /opt.

You have to run firefox as root though in my AntiX 11 install to upgrade through the browser.

The firefox in MX is hosted by the mepis community repo. If you go into the mx-package-installer (or metapackage-installer, depending on your exact mx version), and choose to install firefox, it will update to the latest version hosted in the repo. The built in updater in firefox will not work.

Thanks for the replay but I am somewhat daft when it comes to the MX package installer. Where can I locate this and how do I just install Firefox only?

Thanks so much (as always) __{{emoticon}}__

just open up the whisker menu and start type"mx" you'll see all the mx utilities.

if you are using the original 14 (rather than 14.2) release, then you'll need to type in metapackage-installer as the original 14 release used that app instead of the later mx package installer.

once you have that, open up the browser list (click on the little arrow) and then the checkbox for firefox.

Thanks! I totally forgot about the mx utilities. I already have Firefox 28 and Iceweasel installed.

dolphin_oracle wrote:The firefox in MX is hosted by the mepis community repo. If you go into the mx-package-installer (or metapackage-installer, depending on your exact mx version), and choose to install firefox, it will update to the latest version hosted in the repo. The built in updater in firefox will not work.

Hi Dolphin,

I am using AntiX 13.2 stable and I want to update Firefox (iceweasel) to 36.0.1. I already downloaded the Firefox version and it is sitting in my Xarchiver archive manager. It reads"firefox- 36.0.1. tar.bz2". I also have meta package installer. How exactly do I install this update with out any hitches? I just want to update the browser, not the entire distro.

Thanks in advance.

The way I keep iceweasel up to date, automatically, is to use this repo:
I put it in / etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list.

Run an"apt-get update" and then"apt-get install iceweasel" and it should update to the latest version of the browser without updating the entire distro.

If you want to stick to that firefox tar.bz2 that you downloaded, just unpack the tar.bz2 into its own folder. You will then run firefox from that folder. You'll need to make your own menu entry if you use this method and want to be able to launch from the menu. I have done this in the past, and when I did I just put firefox in a folder in my home folder (~/.local/applications)

Dolphin,

I ran"apt-get update" in terminal and got this:

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url was:"http://security.debian.org"
linktext was:"http://security.debian.org"
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linktext was:"http://security.debian.org"
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Ign
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linktext was:"http://antix.daveserver.info"
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG ="en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

At this point I tried your suggestion to:

apt-get install iceweasel

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

So I tried to dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem.

dpkg --configure -a
Setting up locales (2.13-38+deb7u8) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
ar_EG.UTF-8... done
be_BY.UTF-8... done
bg_BG.UTF-8... done
ca_ES.UTF-8... done
cs_CZ.UTF-8... done
da_DK.UTF-8... done
de_CH.UTF-8... done
de_DE.UTF-8... done
el_GR.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
es_AR.UTF-8... done
es_ES.UTF-8... done
es_MX.UTF-8... done
es_PA.UTF-8... done
es_VE.UTF-8... done
et_EE.UTF-8... done
eu_ES.UTF-8... done
fa_IR.UTF-8... done
fi_FI.UTF-8... done
fr_BE.UTF-8... done
fr_CH.UTF-8... done
fr_FR.UTF-8... done
ga_IE.UTF-8... done
he_IL.UTF-8... done
hr_HR.UTF-8... done
hu_HU.UTF-8... done
is_IS.UTF-8... done
it_IT.UTF-8... done
ja_JP.UTF-8... done
ka_GE.UTF-8... done
ko_KR.UTF-8... done
lt_LT.UTF-8... done
lv_LV.UTF-8... done
mk_MK.UTF-8... done
nb_NO.UTF-8... done
nl_BE.UTF-8... done
nl_NL.UTF-8... done
nn_NO.UTF-8... done
pl_PL.UTF-8... done
pt_BR.UTF-8... done
pt_PT.UTF-8... done
ro_RO.UTF-8... done
ru_RU.UTF-8... done
sk_SK.UTF-8... done
sl_SI.UTF-8... done
sq_AL.UTF-8... done
sr_RS.UTF-8... done
sv_SE.UTF-8... done
tr_TR.UTF-8... done
uk_UA.UTF-8... done
zh_CN.UTF-8... done
zh_TW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Setting up iceweasel (31.5.0esr-1~deb7u1) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.244-1+deb7u1) ...
Setting up xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6+deb7u3) ...
Setting up fonts-opensymbol (2:102.2+LibO3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u3) ...
Setting up ttf-opensymbol (2:102.2+LibO3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u3) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...


May I consider Iceweasel updated now after all of this? The reason for all of this is that my browser (iceweasel) has been crashing my PC lately (just suddenly turning it off), especially when I'm on a high speed site like Facebook or one of the online news services with a lot of flash. I updated the flash player (I think), so it probably goes back to updating the browser correctly. This started ocurring only recently. Please let me know.

Dolphin:

Sorry about that attempt with changing the font color. __{{emoticon}}__

This is my response in a color you can read:

I ran"apt-get update" in terminal and got this:

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linktext was:"http://security.debian.org"
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url was:"http://security.debian.org"
linktext was:"http://security.debian.org"
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Ign
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url was:"http://antix.daveserver.info"
linktext was:"http://antix.daveserver.info"
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stable/main Translation-en
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG ="en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

At this point I tried your suggestion to:

apt-get install iceweasel

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

So I tried to dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem.

dpkg --configure -a
Setting up locales (2.13-38+deb7u8) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
ar_EG.UTF-8... done
be_BY.UTF-8... done
bg_BG.UTF-8... done
ca_ES.UTF-8... done
cs_CZ.UTF-8... done
da_DK.UTF-8... done
de_CH.UTF-8... done
de_DE.UTF-8... done
el_GR.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
es_AR.UTF-8... done
es_ES.UTF-8... done
es_MX.UTF-8... done
es_PA.UTF-8... done
es_VE.UTF-8... done
et_EE.UTF-8... done
eu_ES.UTF-8... done
fa_IR.UTF-8... done
fi_FI.UTF-8... done
fr_BE.UTF-8... done
fr_CH.UTF-8... done
fr_FR.UTF-8... done
ga_IE.UTF-8... done
he_IL.UTF-8... done
hr_HR.UTF-8... done
hu_HU.UTF-8... done
is_IS.UTF-8... done
it_IT.UTF-8... done
ja_JP.UTF-8... done
ka_GE.UTF-8... done
ko_KR.UTF-8... done
lt_LT.UTF-8... done
lv_LV.UTF-8... done
mk_MK.UTF-8... done
nb_NO.UTF-8... done
nl_BE.UTF-8... done
nl_NL.UTF-8... done
nn_NO.UTF-8... done
pl_PL.UTF-8... done
pt_BR.UTF-8... done
pt_PT.UTF-8... done
ro_RO.UTF-8... done
ru_RU.UTF-8... done
sk_SK.UTF-8... done
sl_SI.UTF-8... done
sq_AL.UTF-8... done
sr_RS.UTF-8... done
sv_SE.UTF-8... done
tr_TR.UTF-8... done
uk_UA.UTF-8... done
zh_CN.UTF-8... done
zh_TW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Setting up iceweasel (31.5.0esr-1~deb7u1) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.244-1+deb7u1) ...
Setting up xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6+deb7u3) ...
Setting up fonts-opensymbol (2:102.2+LibO3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u3) ...
Setting up ttf-opensymbol (2:102.2+LibO3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u3) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...


May I consider Iceweasel updated now after all of this? The reason for all of this is that my browser (iceweasel) has been crashing my PC lately (just suddenly turning it off), especially when I'm on a high speed site like Facebook or one of the online news services with a lot of flash. I updated the flash player (I think), so it probably goes back to updating the browser correctly. This started ocurring only recently. Please let me know.

it updated to the latest extended support version in the repos. if you want the absolute latest available you'll need to add the repo I posted and repeat the apt-get update aND apt-get install ice weasel again.