Upgrade to Firefox 3.5.n on Fedor 9: How to, please
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Upgrade to Firefox 3.5.n on Fedor 9: How to, please
This is probably a dumb question, but yum seems not to be upgrading Firefox. I have d/loaded the most recent release, untarred the zipfile, and stored it in /tmp. The untar created a directory "firefox", and I am now at a standstill. The README.txt is meaningless, and the run-mozilla.sh script - which looks like it might do something useful - simply issues:
run-mozilla.sh cannot execute.
So, what is the Fedora endorsed way to upgrade a user program such as Firefox, please?
Thanks
George
Support for F9 was dropped in early July. There will be no new official updates of any kind from now on. Each version of Fedora is only supported for 13months. If you are looking for longer support(and free) you may want to look at Centos. Centos is RHEL with the logos removed. It has a five year support life and is free to download/update(unlike RHEL).
Hmmm. the extracted firefox script seems to never terminate. Perhaps I'll stick with 3.0.11 for now. Yes, I realize Fedora 9 is no longer supported.....I guess its upgrade time!.
Thanks
George
OK, I have now upgraded to FEDORA 10. I have downloaded firefox 3.5 zip, untarred it , and there are still no instructions that I can find.
I did read somehwhere you cannot upgrade but must must install fresh (3.5). Is this correct? If so, then I still have the question how to install (or upgrade over 3.0.n, if possible).
And if a fresh install is required, how to clean up the old version? I'm not all that experience with package management and program removal.
I would be grateful for any help on this question.....
And one final thing...would the links to the Firefox Internet Browser from the small "f" icon (Kickoff Application Launcher) in the lower left of KDE pick up this newer version?
Thanks
George
Use the instructions mentioned above.
If you find this troublesome, you can use
yum update firefox
to update firefox to latest version. It will automatically remove the earlier version.
Thanks repo....How to "change the properties of the curent firefox icon" that appears in App Launcher,Applications, Internet, Firefox Typically a rt click would open up such a dialog......
Also, will your procedure lead to uninstall of the prior version, or is that to be done manually?
Thanks
George
ThinkFree - I really don't know why this is so hard.....
[root /etc]#yum update firefox
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for adobe-linux-i386
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for livna
No Presto metadata available for updates
Setting up Update Process
Thanks repo....How to "change the properties of the curent firefox icon" that appears in App Launcher,Applications, Internet, Firefox Typically a rt click would open up such a dialog......
Also, will your procedure lead to uninstall of the prior version, or is that to be done manually?
Thanks
George
^If using GNOME, Go to SYSTEM>PREFERENCES>MAIN MENU
Here under menus, select INTERNET. In right pane, you will find firefox's entry. Right Click and select properties. In the COMMAND box, enter the path of new firefox script.
ThinkFree - I really don't know why this is so hard.....
[root /etc]#yum update firefox
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for adobe-linux-i386
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for livna
No Presto metadata available for updates
Setting up Update Process
What are the contents of .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d directory on your system? And no fedora*.repo file seems to be there.
.How to "change the properties of the curent firefox icon" that appears in App Launcher,Applications, Internet, Firefox Typically a rt click would open up such a dialog......
I add the launcher to the panel or desktop, and do the changes from there, so I can use them both.
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Also, will your procedure lead to uninstall of the prior version, or is that to be done manually?
It will only install the latest version.
Just leave the old version, it will be upgraded by your system.
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