Hi guys, (my first post, yay!)

The other night, firefox was prompting me to download a newer version + updates, I did so and now it doesn't work.

jerome@dhcppc0:~/firefox-installer> ./firefox
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!

(firefox-bin:5004): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

So I tried to install a new copy. But I don't think I went about it in the right way lol. How do you uninstall programs in linux?

I use Suse 9.1 Pro, and I downloaded the latest firefox *.tar.gz

Help me!!

Thanks in advance, Jerome

For firefox, if you had the source tarball, then there might be a makefile in the source tree (the directory where u unpacked the tarball. If there is such a file, then goto that directory and punch in "make uninstall". If that doesn't work, or you did not compile in the first place, but copied binaries, firefox usually has all of it's stuff in /usr/lib/firefox or /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox or whatever (if in doubt, run "updatebd" to update your slocate database & punch in "Locate firefox", then delete all the files shown in stdout, inclusding any directories that are exclusively for firefox). Just delete that directory & that should do it. If you installed from rpms, then punch in "rpm -e firefox" and that should do it.

To uninstall see their FAQ,

http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html

Sheng-Chieh

Where should I install firefox, so that it is available to all users?

In fact, where do I put any of these programs for everyone to use (sorry, im new to this)...

some other program i have installed (rpms) went into /opt ...

?

I'm using firefox to post right now

This is the first time that I've ever gotton anything to work on linux, by myself.

Yay, so happy.

Thanks guys, Cheers

I installed it into /usr/local/firefox , is that ok?

Yep, that would be the right place