updating firefox in linux
Friday, January 27, 2006 by werewolf | Discussion: 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.
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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Reply #1 Friday, January 27, 2006 10:24 PM