At 11:37 PM 6/28/05 -0700, you wrote:
Lief Hendrickson wrote:
Can anyone tell me where Firefox is installed under Fedora 3? Is there
some way to check properties on a launch icon to find out where its
executable file is located?
Run 'which firefox' at a prompt.
I just installed Fedora 3. It comes with Firefox 1.0. I downloaded the
Firefox 1.04 installer. Where do I move this file so it will install
over the existing Firefox?
Don't. You have installed Fedora Core 3, but you've missed a very
important step -- applying the latest software updates, including bugfixes
and security patches. Read up a bit on the 'yum' program, or just try
running 'yum update' with your machine connected to the internet.
You'll find that Firefox v1.04 is available for Core 3 from the Fedora
project as an update. You don't need to use the installer that you downloaded.
That said, if you in the future wish to replace a program that was
provided by your distribution, I recommend you look for a RPM package. If
you cannot find one, then remove the Fedora-provided RPM before installing
the new software. In the case of Firefox, you would run 'rpm -e
firefox'. That will uninstall the software entirely.
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Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com
Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting
Before seeing this message I used the update icon ("Red Hat Notification
Tool") at the upper left of the main screen and excluded all packages
except firefox then ran update. After fumbling around a bit, it worked - I
then pened Firefox to find it as version 1.0.4. Does the yum command work
the same as the Red Hat Notification Tool?
Next, per above email, I went to a terminal window and typed "yum update"
to get other updates. It took several hours to complete. I am running dual
boot, and efore doing the yum update, there were two choices at boot -
windows and linux. Now there are three choices - two of them are
linux. The two linux choices (if I got the numbers right) are:
Fedora Core 2.6.9-1.667
Fedora Core 2.6.11-1.39_FC3
Does this mean I have two independent linux systems now? Would the
application upgrades work with either core?
Thanks
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