Problem getting iceweasel

Carsten Schoenert c.schoenert at t-online.de
Wed Dec 30 08:16:45 UTC 2015


Hello Joseph,

Am 30.12.2015 um 08:36 schrieb joseph perry:
> Hi, I'm kinda a Linux dummy so please forgive my ignorance. I was trying
> to get iceweasel on my beaglebone black so I found the
> mozilla.debian.net <http://mozilla.debian.net> site which instructed me
> to add this source to my /etc/apt/sources.list  deb
> http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release Then I did
> an apt-get update but I got an error message saying W: Failed to fetch
> http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/iceweasel-release/binary-armhf/Packages
> 404 Not Found [IP:128.31.0.62 80]

as you wrote you are using a Beagelbone. This is using a ARMv7 CPU, in
Debian there was the armhf platform created to getting such devices
supported.
You will find some further informations about this topic on the Debian wiki.

https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts
https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort

The archive behind debian-mozilla.net isn't supporting other platforms
than i386 and amd64 and isn't a official Debian archive. So as it's not
holding packages for armhf (take a look at the error message again) you
wont get backported Iceweasel packages for your Beaglebone from there.
(Mike could improve the generated entry on m.d.n by adding the supported
platforms into the line of code to prevent apt on getting packages that
are not there.)

Instead of trying to use the latest upstream version I would suggest you
to use the old-stable-security version. That's currently version
38.5.0esr-1~deb7u2.
The power of the Beaglebone isn't that much, so the gain wouldn't be a
big thing if you use a recent version of Iceweasel on the Beaglebone.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert



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