Re: [SLUG] Upgrading Firefox on Debian Woody

[Matthew Moor <m@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terry Collins wrote:

> Has anyone been able to do this?
>
> I am attempting to upgrade Firefox (V0.7) on Debian Woody, but it 
> seems to be at am impass.
>
> Have downloads the 1.0.4 upgrade and attempted to install it.
> First problem is that it requires libstdc++.so.5. and Woody only has 
> up to V3.
>
> Does anyone know of a way around this?
>
>
> This all started when I went looking for a plug-in to display gifs 
> (mutter mutter, tax stuff using whereis for distances)

Try using backports -- they at least have 1.0 available. (presumably 
this is patched for security, but ...)
http://www.backports.org/

Cheers,

Matt