Garry Knight wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi Garry,

Thanks a ton for ur help but still no success as the error pasted below
will throw some light. BTW, I'm using FC6
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[pom@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost sun]# rpm -e firefox
[root@localhost sun]# rm /usr/bin/firefox
rm: cannot lstat `/usr/bin/firefox': No such file or directory
[root@localhost pom]# ln -s /home/pom/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
[root@localhost pom]# cd firefox
[root@localhost firefox]# firefox
/home/pom/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost firefox]# ./firefox
../firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Now I'm without FF1.5 too. Trying Konqueror thru GUI which for some
strange reaons doesnt come up :-(

Tia,
Rgds Poms