-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all,
One of my friends has the wrong version of firefox installed on his system, and he can't seem to get the right version running. Is the wrong binary being linked by the system somehow? See the emails from him below... Johnathon - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ubuntu again Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:22:09 +0100 To: Johnathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> I had Firefox 2.0.0.12 running under Feisty. When I upgraded to Gutsy, it stayed as Firefox 2.0.0.12 (instead of changing to version 3). (Screenshot of About Mozilla Firefox attached As far as I remember, the only 'odd' thing I ever did was have ubuntuzilla installed for a while (it's now uninstalled) Synaptic says it's v3.0 (screenshot attached). In the terminal, the output of dpkg --list | grep -i 'fox' is... iifirefox3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 meta package for the popular mozilla web bro ii firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3& safe and easy web browser from Mozilla iifirefox-3.0-gnome-support Mozilla Firefox ii mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb 2.0.0.7+1-0ubuntu4 Mozilla Firefox English language/region pack ii ubufox 0.5-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu Firefox specific configuration But it looks like v2 and it itself says it's version 2. It's not a high priority, as v2 does work. But it's odd. And I'd like to upgrade at some stage. Do you know what might be going on? 2008/9/10 Johnathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <snip> > > Try opening a terminal, and uninstalling, and then re-installing firefox: > > sudo aptitude remove firefox && sudo aptitude install firefox > > That should force it to, with any luck, make sure it gets the new version. > > Also, you could try running firefox from the command line, to see which > version it boots... > > Let me know if that helps! > > Johnathon - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: ubuntu again Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:06:21 +0100 To: Johnathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johnathon, I've tried both of those: It uninstalled and reinstalled happily. I've copied the terminal output below. But when I run it, it still claims it's 2.0.0.12. That's true whether I run it from the menus, or the command line. Rick. PS Here's all the terminal output: - ------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude remove firefox && sudo aptitude install firefox [sudo] password for rick: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libdns32 libk3b2 libnotify-bin xserver-xorg-video-amd The following packages have been kept back: brasero The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4674kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 219216 files and directories currently installed.) Removing firefox ... Removing libk3b2 ... Removing libdbus-qt-1-1c2 ... Removing libdns32 ... <snip> The following packages have been kept back: brasero The following NEW packages will be installed: firefox 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/65.9kB of archives. After unpacking 123kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Selecting previously deselected package firefox. (Reading database ... 219148 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firefox (from .../firefox_3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3_all.deb) ... Setting up firefox (3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3) ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree - -- Blog: http://kirrus.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIyixa81bUwCB/xdgRAsDbAJ4umsCLhZCLt6D8osypqNtYaMXPTACgk//z +KynJh8nuwnKr37Q6nYVpkQ= =xtCi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
