By default FC6 installed firefox 1.5, i want 2.0.0.3

I downloaded the tarball and decompressed it to /usr/local/firefox. Websites says you don't install it, you just run it from here.

How do I remove 1.5?

How do I link to 2.0.0.3? I have a shortcut but I don't know which file to make it open... run-mozilla.sh doesn't work, mozilla-bin doesnt work, nothing else looks right.

Help?

As root, you can move /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox-1.5, and then link the firefox 2.0 binary to /usr/bin/firefox.

That would be:
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-1.5
sudo ln -s /path/to/directory/with/new/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

what does sudo do? why not just mv?

anyway, there is no directory for firefox under /usr/bin, but there is a 'firefox' i can see via terminal, i cant use a browser until i install KDE because when I try to open a file browesr:

The application nautilus has crashed.

Using GNOME at the moment.


I typed firefox into the terminal and 1.5 started up. I'm confused.

Remove /usr/bin/firefox. It's the Firefox 1.5 executable. The sudo command allows you to do this as root, because only root has write access to /usr/bin. You could always do this instead:

$ su
(enter your root password to become root)
# rm /usr/bin/firefox
# ln -s /path/to/new/firefox/binary /usr/bin/

You need to link it instead of moving it because the Firefox 2.0 binary expects all its libraries to be at a certain place relative to its location (the proper directory structure is self-contained inside the decompressed folder you downloaded). Linking the binary to /usr/bin allows you to preserve the hierarchy, whereas moving it does not. Make sure that the firefox folder is in a place that's unlikely to change before doing the link, because moving the folder after linking firefox to /usr/bin will break it.

now i have no firefox

its in the folder /usr/bin/firefox

how do I make a link to it? I don't know what file to link to... firefox-bin? run-mozilla.sh?

found an rpm and it just says: error: Failed dependencies:
system-bookmarks is needed by firefox-2.0.0.3-4.fc7.i386


why will NOTHING work?

Personally I would have just left things as they were without deleting the old binary. If you installed firefox 2.x into /usr/local/firefox and you want it to be the default browser, then all you would need to do is edit the list of preferred applications in gnome (System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications) or KDE (Kcontrol -> Components -> Components chooser -> Web browser) and make /usr/local/firefox/firefox the default browser. You probably would also need to edit your existing Firefox menu entries or desktop shortcuts and change the Firefox command to /usr/local/firefox/firefox.

Doesn't work. I'm sick of this. I've read every guide I can find. Is there something wrong with the compilation???

Firefox is in /usr/local/firefox. It does not work, did everything you did, tried everything everyone said, doesn't work.

Shortcut is set to /usr/local/firefox/firefox. Doesn't work.

Is there a file in the firefox folder I can just double click to run? because none work that I've tried.

WHY is installing a simple browser difficult.

Calm down a little bit and provide us with more detail. Does Firefox 2.x not run at all and what is the output of entering the command below in a terminal.

sorry, things have been stressful ._.

[root@localhost ~]# /usr/local/firefox/firefox
bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: is a directory

Well, something is not quite right because /usr/local/firefox/firefox is a directory instead of a shell script. Delete /usr/local/firefox and then as do something like
After that as a normal user, run /usr/local/firefox and post the output. You may need to install compat-libstdc++-33 (using yum) if Firefox complains of a missing libstdc++-5.

All goes fine...


Edit... Wasn't I meant to run:

?... Well I did, and it says:

So will get what you said.

Just do
Once thats installed, Firefox should work without throwing up anymore error messages.

thanks!!! working 100%, meanwhile I installed apache, its almost sad that its easier