[ubuntu-uk] Wrong version of Firefox
Johnathon Tinsley
kirrus at kirrus.co.uk
Fri Sep 12 09:46:18 BST 2008
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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 <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk>
<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 <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk>
> <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 <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk>
References:
<ffb9ab010809090922j4fac8548x5507bc5fe5971d54 at mail.gmail.com>
<48C78402.5090402 at kirrus.co.uk>
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:
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rick at rick-laptop:~$ 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
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