Group: IceCat/Links to distributions

General informations

Is there any reason why IceCat is skipping updates? - It's due to lack of developer resources. source of information

Arch

There are 2 icecat Arch User Repositories (AUR), icecat and icecat-bin

• packages: icecat (AUR), icecat-bin (AUR)
• list in the wiki with firefox spin offs including icecat, icecat-bin

Debian

• no official package by Debian

Debian 7 "Wheezy"

• blog post "How to Install GNU Icecat on Debian Wheezy"

Debian 8 "Jessie"

• done by one person, maybe with wrong/old version strings, x86_64 only, x86 on request: source of information software source binary

Debian 9 "Stretch"

• package created by one person, x86_64 only, x86 on request: source of information software source binary
• one person uses Trisquel 8 packages for Debian 9 source of information

Fedora

• icecat at the fedora packages RPMS/Source page

Gentoo

A portage overlay (like an additional repository) by one person

• Portage overlay from kitsunyan/foxy-overlay source

gNewSense

not available? https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2019-03/msg00002.html see comment on ML from Johan Andersson on Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:36:54]

GNU

The vanilla icecat/gnuzilla:

• git with source
• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/
• Gnuzilla/Icecat in the Free Software Directory
• see also #GUIX

In GNU Guix <https://gnu.org/s/guix> we keep our IceCat package up-to-date by promptly running the 'makeicecat' script on the latest Firefox ESR release whenever Mozilla issues security updates. We had to abandon use of the IceCat-provided source tarballs for the reason you mention.

You could use the IceCat from Guix, or you could run the 'makeicecat' script yourself to produce an up-to-date IceCat source tarball from the corresponding Firefox ESR source tarball. You can find 'makeicecat' in the Gnuzilla git repository, here:

 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git

source of information

GUIX

• GUIX source of information Get the source by using guix build --source icecat

Parabola

• request for collaboration on the parabola ML by bill-auger
• Packaging request #2411 for 60.7.0
• Parabola package search for icecat
• wiki about icecat
• report of compiling Iceweasel 66.0.1 with minor changes to PKGBUILD and patching

Trisquel

• discussion in the forum about "Abrowser or IceCat?"
• Wiki page about abrowser "Abrowser is Trisquel's version of Mozilla's popular web browser with the trademarked logos replaced."

Trisquel 8

done by one person, x86_64 only, x86 on request:

• source of information software source binary