Fwd: Firefox 3.6

ray burke rayburke30 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 03:11:57 UTC 2011


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ray burke <rayburke30 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6
To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>,
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 18, 2011 07:42:18 AM Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> Bruce,
>>
>> I did what you said and see below results-
>> rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$ sudo chown -R rayburke.rayburke
>> /opt/firefox/firefox/
>> [sudo] password for rayburke:
>> chown: cannot access `/opt/firefox/firefox/': No such file or directory
>> rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$ ls -la  opt
>> total 12
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2011-02-12 07:27 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2011-11-16 05:52 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2011-02-12 07:30 google
>> rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$
>>
>>
>> what do I do now?
>
> You need to find out where your copy of firefox (if any) is located on your
> system.
>
> 1)  How did you install firefox?  From a .deb file?  or what
>
> 2) Do a:     ls -la  /usr/bin/firefox           (it might be there)
>
> 3) Do a   ls -la   /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser   (that might point to it)
>
> 4) Someone suggested  issuing:     which firefox     (yes that's a command)
>
> here's what it shows on my system.
>
>  which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
>
>
> 5) Maybe do the install again and see if the msgs tell you where it was
> installed.
>
>
> This is not rocket science....
>
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Bruce,

I have install from a deb file, when you say to reinstall you neam
thru apdept manager, uninstall
firfox, then install again, when I am in k10.10mm I will send a copy
of the adept manager showing
installed firefox
ray




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