[K12OSN] How to upgrade Firefox?

Rob Owens rob.owens at biochemfluidics.com
Fri Oct 3 17:39:22 UTC 2008


For the sake of running a distro that provides security updates, I think
you should upgrade to K12LTSP 5 EL.  You'll get security updates for the
next 5 years or so, and you'll get Firefox 3 (as well as OpenOffice 2.3
and a bunch of other updated packages).

-Rob

Joseph Bishay 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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