On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:48 +0100, John Matthews <jake...@sky.com> wrote:
> Matthew Daubney wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Matthews wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command,
>>>>>>> adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because
> my
>>>>>>> FF3.5 says shiretoko on it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> What does this command output:
>>>>>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>>
>>>>> this is what I get
>>>>>
>>>>> jake...@jakewc2-laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-09-10 19:52 /usr/bin/firefox ->
> firefox-3.0
>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-09-13 17:09 /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 ->
>>>>> ../lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox.sh
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Looks like you've deleted the symlink for firefox-3.0 now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> That is odd, no mention of shiretoko there, yet when I open it 3.5 it
>>>>> has shiretoko at the top of the window.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The name of the program isn't related to the name in the titlebar,
> this
>>>> is set by the programmer. Shiretoko is the codename for the firefox
> 3.5
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> What was the actual error message when you tried those commands? Did
>>>> you run them with sudo?
>>>>
>>>> I have double checked those commands, and none of them should fail.
> You
>>>> may need to put your password in when it asks.
>>>>
>>>> Ensure you are running them in the correct directory.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This is really odd, I tried to open firefox in a terminal by using this
>>> command firefox %s and it says its not installed, and gives me a
> command
>>> to install it.
>>>
>>
>> Hi john,
>>
>> Open a terminal, type
>>
>> cd /usr/bin
>>
>> Then type
>>
>> sudo ln -s firefox3.5 firefox-3.0
>>
>> That should set 3.5 to the default.
>>
>> -Matt Daubney
>>
>>
>>
> I just looked at that in the terminal, and the results say
>
> ln: creating symbolic link `firefox-3.0': File exists
>
> So does that mean its created the symlink for version 3.0 not 3.5?
>
> I copied and pasted the commands, btw.
>
> John
>
>
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Sorry, my mistake, I misread the output from ls you pasted. The commands
should have been:
>> Open a terminal, type
>>
>> cd /usr/bin
>>
>> Then type
>>
>> sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox
Let us know what that returns.
-Matt Daubney
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