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updating firefox in linux
Published on January 27, 2006 By
werewolf
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Personal Computing
My distro, Ubunto, came with Firefox 1.07. I downloaded the firefox1.5.gz to a folder in 'home' and did the whole dpkg thing and now I have the original firefox 1.07 installation in the 'usr' folder and the new installation in my 'home' folder. It works great. I have a shortcut to it in my panel. The problem comes when I launch a link from email...the old version launches.
I tried updating firefox through the firefox update options, but it didn't see it.
I was going to uninstall the native installation, but the Synaptic Package Manager said it also needed to uninstall the Gnome desktop(!) which seems a bit extreme
How do I get Linux to update the existing installation, or, barring that, how do I get external links to load the new version instead of the old version? Thanks
update: I used the 'preferred applications' app and a hard link to the new installation and now external links open the correct version, but I still have 2 installations of firefox. Can I just move the new firefox folder on top of the old FF folder so that all will be replaced? I don't want to have to reinstall the os again, so I don't want to do anything which would screw everything up.
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Comments
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BlueDev
on Jan 27, 2006
Search the Ubuntu forums for "Automatix". Run that bad boy and it will take care of all your worries, and install a ton of great stuff if you want it. Amazing work.
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werewolf
on Feb 05, 2006
ooohhh....cool software
Thanks BlueDev
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BlueDev
on Feb 05, 2006
No problem. Glad it worked for you.
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