Poma wrote:

> 1]I download FF2 in my /home directory.
> 2]I do -zxvf to untar it. It creates the FF directory.
> 3]cd firefox
> 4]now here, just typing firefox would launch the browser.

If you're in the directory containing the firefox program, then just
typing 'firefox' would normally fail as the current directory isn't on your
search path by default. You normally have to type './firefox'.

I haven't followed this thread from the start, but it seems to me that
you're trying to run FF2 from /home/you/firefox while you've still got
FF1.5 installed in /usr/bin/firefox. If you were to look
in /usr/bin/firefox, you'd see that the 'firefox' program is actually a
symbolic link to the real program in another directory. You need to replace
that symbolic link with a link to FF2.

You can do this by opening a console and entering 'su' and then root's
password when asked. Then enter these 2 lines:

rm /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /home/you/firefox/firefox /usr/binfirefox

In that last line, substitute your user name for the 'you'. You should still
find that 'which firefox' replies with '/usr/bin/firefox' but you should
find that typing 'firefox' in a console (or './firefox' from within the
firefox directory itself) should run FF2. And any icons you've got for
Firefox should also run FF2.

I would suggest that you uninstall FF1.5 before you do the above so that you
don't run into any problems later on when you try to upgrade your system
and your link gets overwritten. I don't know PCLinuxOS, but you should be
able to remove FF1.5 with 'rpm -e firefox' in a console.

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