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Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#1 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

Being new on Debian 11 Stable. We would like to install Librewolf. This is not in the synaptic manager.It is running fine as appimage. But the update is for now only as tar.bz2 available. Better not to install that tar.bz2 on stable although the appimage works fine?
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#2 Post by kedaha »

Hi
I haven't tried it myself but one option would be to install it as detailed at librewolf.net/installation/debian.
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#3 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

Great, will give it a try! thnx kedaha. :)
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#4 Post by canci »

LibreWolf site writes:

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sudo apt install librewolf -y
and then:
LibreWolf site wrote: This may or may not work, depending on how close your distribution is to Ubuntu 20.
which sounds scary and makes me not want to use the -y flag. Just saying.
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#5 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

Damn you are right. They start off with 'Other Debian based distributions' But end with UB based distro...
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#6 Post by kedaha »

It does say that their repository is for Debian 11 as well as Ubuntu 20 and Mint 20.
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# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
# nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
##and adding
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye main
# wget https://deb.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/librewolf.gpg
# apt update
All a dry-run shows is:

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# apt install -s librewolf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  librewolf
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Inst librewolf (96.0-1 LibreWolf:bullseye [all])
Conf librewolf (96.0-1 LibreWolf:bullseye [all])
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#7 Post by kedaha »

I went ahead and installed librewolf, without using the scary -y flag. I see it's currently the same 96.0-1 version as flatpak's.
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#8 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

I tried to follow the instructions and got stuck in the 2nd:

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sudo wget https://deb.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/librewolf.gpg
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sudo: wget: command not found
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#9 Post by kedaha »

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# apt install wget
The man page describes it as "a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web."
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#10 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

Hi kedaha we get this result after

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# apt install wget
no installation candidate

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root@xxx:/etc/apt# apt install wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package wget is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'wget' has no installation candidate
These is my sources.list So something should be missing there?

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root@xxx:/etc/apt# nano sources.list

# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 cinnamon 2021-12-18T13:40]/ bullseye main

# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 cinnamon 2021-12-18T13:40]/ bullseye main

deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-security main
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-security main

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main
# See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information.
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-security main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-security main
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#11 Post by kedaha »

Your sources.list, assuming your mirror is in UK, should look exactly like this
(the "deb-src" lines can be commented out with # unless you plan to compile software from source):

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# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 cinnamon 2021-12-18T13:40]/ bullseye main

# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 cinnamon 2021-12-18T13:40]/ bullseye main

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
#deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main

# bullseye-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
#deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#12 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

Changing source.list helped, had to do a restart to get it activated.

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root@xxx:~# apt install wget

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root@xxx:~# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
root@xxx:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
root@xxx:~#  wget https://deb.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/librewolf.gpg
--2022-01-16 00:48:44--  https://deb.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg
Resolving deb.librewolf.net (deb.librewolf.net)... 116.203.248.82
Connecting to deb.librewolf.net (deb.librewolf.net)|116.203.248.82|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2307 (2.3K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/librewolf.gpg’

/etc/apt/trusted.gp 100%[===================>]   2.25K  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2022-01-16 00:48:45 (20.6 MB/s) - ‘/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/librewolf.gpg’ saved [2307/2307]

root@xxx:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
Get:2 https://deb.librewolf.net bullseye InRelease [2,375 B]
Get:5 https://deb.librewolf.net bullseye/main amd64 Packages [1,656 B]
Fetched 1,656 B in 1s (2,231 B/s)     
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'maindeb/binary-amd64/Packages' as repository
 'http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye InRelease' doesn't have the component 'maindeb'
  (component misspelt in sources.list?)
This 'component misspelt in sources.list?' might hold a clue. But not for me to find.

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##and adding
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye main
Went ahead with the the url you've provided in #2
Now finally got the latest LW running. (Don't like the persistent duckgo they've created in this version. But that's another story.)
Good grieve! what a hassle just to be able to get things updated / installed. Can't say Debian is very userfriendly... :(
kedaha, thanks again for your help! :)
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#13 Post by kedaha »

Hi,
The correct sources.list I posted has no typos so double-check it.
This command:

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# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
should only show this:

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deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye main
Of course you can put the above line in sources.list, but it's a good idea to have non-Debian sources in sources.list.d.
After editing the sources.list file always remember to run

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# apt update
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#14 Post by craigevil »

I just use the tar.gz version.
Extract, copy librewolf to .local/applications.
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#15 Post by kedaha »

I also tried the Flatpak version but the fonts were not so well-defined making it harder to read text. No doubt this could be remedied.
I hadn't tried librewolf before but I find it an interesting fork of firefox.
I suppose the advantage of using the repository is, since librewolf gets fast updates, one doesn't have to repeat copying and extracting every new tar.gz version to .local/applications.
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Re: Want to run Librewolf, tar.bz2 or appimage

#16 Post by Waldo Jeffers »

Anybody who is interested in data protection should have a look at tis blog of a IT security specialist. He has tested +20 browsers.
LibreWolf: Data sending behavior desktop version - browser check part8
From a data protection perspective, LibreWolf leaves an excellent impression.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/librewolf-da ... eck-teil8/

Although i am not pleased with how the duckgo search engine is pushed in this 96 version.

You can use this NON GOOGLE translator
https://www.deepl.com/translator
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