How to update to Firefox 2

[Guest MandrivaMe17]

Hi,

 

As a newbie, I'd like to replace Firefos 1.5, with 2.0.

 

What is the eaisest (gui preferred) way to accomplish this.

 

 

I was successful at changing permissions of the /usr file by logging in as root in a terminal window, and successfull deleting Mozilla Firefox 1.5. But, when I dragged-and-dropped the new Firefox folder from my desktop to the /usr file, Firefox would not open from either the Applications, Internet area or the Firefox panel shortcut.

 

Is there an simpler way to do this?

 

 

Thanks!

 

By the way...nice distro for a Windows user

[jofg]

This is what I did

 

Download the tar gz

 

Extract it.

 

I think by default it will extract to

 

/home/j your name here /Documents/firefoxty

 

cd to that folder in Konsole

 

cd /home/j your name here /Documents/firefox

 

type

 

./firefox

 

to open

 

to create a 'short cut'

 

Rught click on the 'desktop'

 

and click

 

Create New ->

 

Link to Application

 

search for Firefox

 

does this help?

[Guest MandrivaMe17]

That's a little vague for a newbie with not much experience with konsole, or terminal. But, I'll try it.

 

 

Also,

 

After doing the "chown -R thing to get root priviledge, then "chown -R back to root:root to lock the files....now I get the warning box

"insufficient priviledges" when I go to System - Administration - Configure Your Computer.

 

How do I get those priviledges back, so that I can go to Configure Your Computer?

 

 

Thanks much

Edited December 3, 2006 by MandrivaMe17

[jofg]

I am new to Linux as well.

 

Dual booted Sager Notebook - XP Pro / Mandriva 2006

 

Did you install Mandriva?

 

If so, hopefully you created a user password and kept it.

 

if so, log on to Mandriva.

open the Konsole, which looks like DOS in Windows

 

type in

su

 

it will ask for the password that you created

type it in

 

cd directory to your firefox app that tou downloaded, and follow previous instructions.

[Guest MandrivaMe17]

Here's my log...it didn't work after typing ./firefox.

 

Yes, I first typed su

 

 

[xxxxx@localhost Desktop]$ cd /home/xxxxx/Desktop/firefox

[xxxxx@localhost firefox]$ ./firefox

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[xxxxx@localhost firefox]$

Edited December 3, 2006 by MandrivaMe17

[ramfree17]

isnt there a ff2.0 package for mandriva? i was thinking about this last night because urpmf is not showing any package that closely resembles the 2.0 release. i already have contrib and 2 plf repos in my installation sources configured properly.

 

ciao!

[daniewicz]

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

Have a look at this thread:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...092;.so\.5

[darkscot]

As a newbie, I'd like to replace Firefos 1.5...

 

Upgrade Firefox

 

:P

Edited December 5, 2006 by darkscot

[Guest benerivo]

You first need to install the libstdc++.so.5 file that it said it was missing. To do this, go to 'Configure Your Computer' from the start menu, and then in to 'Software Management' and choose the 'Look at installable software' option. When inside, go to 'Development' and then 'C++' . Locate libstdc++5-devel-3.3.6 from the list and install that. Essentially from that point on, Firefox will run from any folder location, when clicking on the file that just reads 'Firefox' from inside the extracted Firefox download folder.

Edited December 6, 2006 by benerivo