How to Install IceCat on Linuxmint-18.03
To Install IceCat on Linuxmint-18.03
IceCat is a free-ware, private browser is developed by the GNU Project. It manages quite a big list of free plugins. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of IceCat on Linuxmint 18.03.
Installation
Add the dependency package into the repository
linuxhelp ~ # apt-add-repository " deb http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/ toutatis-updates main"
Let' s first start with updating the system repositories
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Hit:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Get:9 http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel toutatis-updates InRelease \[5,487 B\]
Ign:9 http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel toutatis-updates InRelease
Get:10 http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel toutatis-updates/main amd64 Packages \[1,170 kB\]
Get:11 http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel toutatis-updates/main i386 Packages \[1,175 kB\]
Fetched 2,350 kB in 19s (120 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Finally install the icecat application.
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install icecat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpango1.0-0
Suggested packages:
fonts-lyx
Recommended packages:
xul-ext-torproxy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
icecat libpango1.0-0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 393 not upgraded.
Need to get 42.6 MB of archives.
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up libpango1.0-0:amd64 (1.38.1-1) ...
Setting up icecat (31.8.0-gnu2+6.0.1trisquel1) ...
Please restart all running instances of icecat, or you will experience problems.
Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here
Now, you can able to use this IceCat web browser application
With this, the method to install IceCat on Linuxmint 18.03 comes to an end.
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