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It most certainly works going the other way. I did it with FF3 on my
K12LTSP 4.2EL box shortly before upgrading said box to 5.0EL.<br>
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David Hopkins wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Here are the instructions (verbatim) that Terrell posted on my request
of how to downgrade from FF3. except for step 10 where the link name
is missing. I added what I used. I'm guessing that they should just
work going the other way as well? The other thing I have also found
useful is using gconf-editor to make sure that the panel launchers
launch mozilla-firefox.desktop as opposed to the default setting.
Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins
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RPM repositories aren't always the answer. You could do it the same
way I do it on some of my systems (CentOS, Slackware, etc.). Just
download the Firefox 2 tarball (not the "installer" package, I mean
the other one, it's about 9.3MB), un-tar it into, say, the
"/usr/local/firefox2" directory, and symlink /usr/bin/firefox to
/usr/local/firefox2/firefox. Boom, you should be good to go.
Here's how I do it, step by step:
1.) Download Firefox 2.x to some directory (we'll say /home/temporary
for this example).
2.) Become root.
3.) cd /usr/local
4.) tar -xvzf /home/temporary/firefox-2.0.0.x.tar.gz
5.) ls -l (you should see a "firefox" directory now)
6.) mv firefox firefox2.0.0.x (this is just for you to remember
which version of FF it is)
7.) ln -s /usr/local/firefox2.0.0.x /usr/local/firefox (just a
symlink to make it slightly easier to upgrade later, not required)
8.) cd /usr/bin
9.) mv firefox firefox.bak
10.) ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox
And then, give 'er a spin. You should be able to click on any of the
"Firefox Web Browser" icons and have v2.0.0.x come up.
--TP
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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Joseph Bishay <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:joseph.bishay@gmail.com"><joseph.bishay@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
I hope everyone is doing well.
I am running ltsp on fedora core 6 (k12LTSP) but the browse is
version 1something. I need to upgrade to 2 as some sites no longer
work. I followed the instructions here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://note19.com/2007/05/19/how-to-update-to-firefox-2-on-fedora-6/">http://note19.com/2007/05/19/how-to-update-to-firefox-2-on-fedora-6/</a>
and yum was successful but now when I start firefox nothing at all
happens. Literally nothing. Neither command like or icon work. It just
accepts the command or double-click and just returns me to the screen
or command prompt.
what should I do?
Thank you.
Joseph
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