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Rob Valliere writes: "The best Linux Web browsers have dramatically improved in the past few months: they are all stable, standards compliant and loaded with solid feature enhancements and additions. Using Red Hat 7.2 and the KDE desktop, the premier Linux browsers are Galeon 1.0.3, Mozilla 0.9.8
and Opera 6.0 TP3. The best Web downloads and installs were from Opera and Mozilla, which have minimal dependencies. Galeon is a small download but can be difficult to upgrade due to its Mozilla and GNOME dependencies."
This article sure does use a lot of bold words. I'm glad the author was very enthuastic in this article about browsers, but is this level of boldness really prudent? You be the judge!
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Not if you have a decent package management system...
... ... 90725 files and directories currently installed.) .../galeon_1.0.3-0.4_i386.deb) ... ...
shawn@shawnst21:~$ su
Password:
shawnst21:/home/shawn# apt-get install galeon
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
galeon
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1902kB of archives. After unpacking 5751kB will be used.
Get:1 http://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US/main galeon 1.0.3-0.4 [1902kB]
Fetched 1902kB in 29s (64.6kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages
Selecting previously deselected package galeon.
(Reading database
Unpacking galeon (from
Setting up galeon (1.0.3-0.4)
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Galeon is a small download but can be difficult to upgrade due to its Mozilla and GNOME dependencies.
Don't know what kind of broken Linux distribution you guys are using that doesn't handle dependancies. On mine, installing galeon is as easy as:
apt-get install galeon
Debian all the way!