How to find apps

gauntalus · 09-02-2004, 12:48 PM

Hey, so earlier this summer i started messing with linux but my intrest kind of died out until just now. I booted the machine back up and got eth0 up and working, and now i want to update mozilla firefox. My problem is that I can't find the directory where firefox is installed. I'd like to delete the old version before installing the new.

Anyone know an easy way of locating firefox on the machine?

masand · 09-02-2004, 12:51 PM

hi
do this

#updatedb

#locate firefox-bin

usually if u installed it then it is installed it in /usr/local/bin/

regards

regards

detpenguin · 09-02-2004, 12:57 PM

if you have an earlier version of firefox, it might just be a directory in your home directory...delete the firefox directory and it's gone. then you can install the newer version.

gauntalus · 09-02-2004, 01:22 PM

thanks, worked like a charm.

it was located in /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox-0.8

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oh well