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latest GNU icecat download is unavailable.

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Message #8 received at 56307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: bill-auger <bill-auger <at> peers.community>
To: Chen Yu <chen-ue <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: 56307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56307: latest GNU icecat download is unavailable.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:09:38 -0400

Chen Yu -

gnuzilla no longer publishes installer packages - since v68,
icecat is maintained only as source code

the preferred way to install icecat is from the repos of a distro
which packages it - if you are using an arch-like distro, you
could use the icecat package from parabola - fedora users
(and other RPM-based distros probably) can use the fedora
package - for debian-based distros, there is a user-maintained
repo on the OBS - users of other distros can install the guix
package manager and use that to install icecat

of course, anyone could build it from source - that is done by
running the makeicecat script, which cleans the mozilla
sources, then running the ./mach script to compile in the usual
mozilla way - there is probably a README that explains the
procedure in detail

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