[K12OSN] How to upgrade Firefox?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Good to hear.

Now, please upgrade those FC6 boxes at your earliest opportunity!

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Joseph Bishay wrote:
> I wanted to thank Terrell and David as these steps worked flawlessly.
>
> Joseph
>
> On 10/3/08, David Hop
>
> kins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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:
>>> http://note19.com/2007/05/19/how-to-update-to-firefox-2-on-fedora-6/
>>> 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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