[K12OSN] How to upgrade Firefox?

[Joseph Bishay]

You are correct that I need to move forward. But that's not a quick
and simple thing in a production lab.

 The firefox upgrade is to buy me time until I can correctly do the
full upgrade.

2008/10/3 "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com>:
> +1 on that.  You're asking to get cracked if you stay on FC6.
>
> If you're wondering if CentOS 5 (K12LTSP 5EL's base) will "look different"
> from FC6, the answer is, "no, not really."  It's nearly identical in
> appearance.
>
> --TP
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> Rob Owens wrote:
>
> 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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