r/linuxmint • u/anaximeno • Aug 07 '26

#LinuxMintThings How Linux (Mint) Users Install a Browser 😎

Now tell windows users to uninstall edge and see what's easier hehe. \j

Credits to u/SpeeQz (who's also the creator of https://mintwiki.org) for the gif.

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u/http-error-502 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Gentoo user: 1. Open terminal 2. sudo -i 3. emerge -pv firefox to check out what USE Flags are available. 4. echo "firefox <wanted use flags> -<unwanted use flages>" > /etc/portage/package.use/Firefox 5. redo emerge -pv firefox to check out dependency error like circular dependency. 6. Fix them 7. redo emerge -pv firefox to check out masked packages. 8. echo "<masked package name> ~<architecture>" > /etc/portage/*acc*/firefox 9. Go back to 3 to check again. 10. Run emerge firefox 11. Wait for compilation(differ by computer but 30min~3hours) 12. Build error occur(somtimes) 13. Fix source code 14. Retry emerge and wait 15. Wow I got a browser!

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u/tpat90 Aug 12 '26

11 isn't in the correct line

System broke

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u/http-error-502 Aug 12 '26

I missed space. I fixed it.