Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Moderator: trava90
Forum rules
This board is for technical/general usage questions and troubleshooting for the Pale Moon browser only.
Technical issues and questions not related to the Pale Moon browser should be posted in other boards!
Please keep off-topic and general discussion out of this board, thank you!
This board is for technical/general usage questions and troubleshooting for the Pale Moon browser only.
Technical issues and questions not related to the Pale Moon browser should be posted in other boards!
Please keep off-topic and general discussion out of this board, thank you!
Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Hi, I just got a new/used Lenovo laptop that runs Debian 10. I want to install Pale Moon so that it will automatically pick up new updates when they become available. What do you currently recommend as the easiest way to do this? Appreciate your help in advance.
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Use the official Pale Moon repository: https://software.opensuse.org/download. ... e=palemoon
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
But that's kind of tricky, isn't it? I thought Steven Pusser's page was easier to use and it automatically updates when you run run a general system update.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Oops! Sorry, my bad! That was it. Of those two options "Install manually" or "Grab packages" which is the easier one to use?
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
It is exactly the repo you mean. It is really easy.
You only have to run these commands:
After that Pale Moon will be updated within apt.
You only have to run these commands:
Code: Select all
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/Debian_10/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/Debian_10/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
apt-get update
apt-get install palemoon
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Aha! So do I run each one of those command lines individually in a terminal?
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Yes
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Hmmm...I got a response that said "permission denied." How do I clear that? The commands might need another preface to help me identify properly.
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
log in as root with , then tyoe the commands again in this terminal with root privileges.
Code: Select all
su root
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
When finished, how do you exit root? Is there a command for that?
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Use
Was it successfully?
to exit the shell.exit
Was it successfully?
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Yes, it worked fine! Thank you so very much. This was great. But I had to use "sudo su root" to get the commands to respond. Once I put that in, the $ changed to # and I could just insert the commands as you listed them. And "exit" took me right out! Great. So this will now automatically add any upgrades when I do a general system upgrade, correct? Thanks again...Much!
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Yes, it will be updated with
Do you have automatic update enabled with unattended-upgrades?
Then you have to change a file to also install updates automatically from this repo (I set it to all).
.apt update && apt upgrade
Do you have automatic update enabled with unattended-upgrades?
Then you have to change a file to also install updates automatically from this repo (I set it to all).
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
- stevenpusser
- Project Contributor
- Posts: 903
- Joined: 2015-08-01, 18:33
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
The recommended way to be root now in Buster is now with "su -", so that programs in /sbin will be in your path.
Anyway, you now probably have a "Release.key" file owned by root in your home folder. It's not doing any harm there, but you might want to remove it as root or with sudo, if you enabled sudo during the install:
That key file is what apt uses to authenticate the repo, and you already added the key to the apt keyring, so it's safe to delete.
I try to update Pale Moon in the repo as soon as possible, but sometime life gets in the way, and I might be a day or so late. Maybe longer in case of a COVID-19 apocalypse. This isn't an official repo run by the PM devs, which might be better, but they do approve my packaging of PM.
Anyway, you now probably have a "Release.key" file owned by root in your home folder. It's not doing any harm there, but you might want to remove it as root or with sudo, if you enabled sudo during the install:
Code: Select all
sudo rm -f ~/Release.key
I try to update Pale Moon in the repo as soon as possible, but sometime life gets in the way, and I might be a day or so late. Maybe longer in case of a COVID-19 apocalypse. This isn't an official repo run by the PM devs, which might be better, but they do approve my packaging of PM.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
When I put that command in a terminal nothing visible happened. Is it safe to assume the file was removed?
- Pentium4User
- Board Warrior
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: 2019-04-24, 09:38
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Yes, there is not further output if the removal was successful.
If there is an error, e.g. you don't have the permission to delete it, a message will appear.
If there is an error, e.g. you don't have the permission to delete it, a message will appear.
The profile picture shows my Maico EC30 E ceiling fan.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
Thanks! One further question...a simple one. (I hope!) The upper right-hand corner of my Pale Moon page doesn't have a control to enlarge and make smaller the screen image. Right now I'm working on a reduced sized screen. Under "View" I can hit "Full Screen" but then I have no control bars at all. How do I get the screen image control on the page? Thank you again.
Re: Easiest way to install Palemoon for Debian 10
I think you are talking about Minimize, Maximize and Close actions. Those controls are drawn by your OS. This may have something to do with the window manager or its theme you are using.