[PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

[Ben Koenig]

On 5/4/19 6:27 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sat, 4 May 2019 12:57:01 -0700
> Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> dijo:
>
>> Given that I've been moving to Falkon from the ktown repo, I don't
>> really care all that much.
> The Falkon website says to install from your distro's repositories,
> Eager to try something new I tried to install it on Xubuntu 16.04, but
> it's not in the repos. It also offers a command to install with snap,
> but I hate snap. I also found an Appimage file, but it won't run - no
> error messages, just nada. Oh well.
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That's probably because Falkon is the new KDE browser. It's semi-related 
to chrome/chromium. I haven't figured out how much it depends on the KDE 
Plasma desktop.

That's why I mentioned ktown. For Slackware ktown is a bleeding edge 
KDE5 repository so you would need to running an equally recent version 
of ubuntu. 16.04 is too old ;-)


BTW, I see a lot of questions on PLUG about package version 
availability. Even though I'm not on Ubuntu, I still get curious and 
look up versions at their online repo list:

https://packages.ubuntu.com


You can search by version, e.g. 16.04 or 18.04. This is useful to 
determine if you need to upgrade, and to which version you should 
upgrade to.

According to my searches, 16.04 doesn't have falkon, but 18.04 DOES

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=falkon&searchon=names&suite=bionic&section=all


One of those pro-tips. Personally I find it easier to help myself 
whenever possible. You know, teach a man to fish and all that.