DaveBeck

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Hello

need some help please, my wife has a acer aspire one

It has mozilla firefox 2.0.0 on it. This is now very out of date. Its using Linux i686.
I have tried downloading the latest version of firefox but i am completely in the dark with this Linux system. It downloads, then when i open it i just have loads of choices asking to extract. then when i extract nothing happens.
I normally just download and run with my system.

I have searched internet and it confuses the hell out of me.

I have tried run program using alt f2 but not sure if im typing in correct info

Any help would be great as im stumped

IanW

Dave,

Found this might be of help?

Installing Firefox 3.5 on Aspire One Linux

Ian

DaveBeck

iTrader: (12)

Found that Ian mate, i have no idea what it means after opening a terminal.

I download that. then when i paste in the commands suggested nothing happens. not sure if im putting it in exactly as i wants.

what exactly do i have to type into the terminal?

i dont know what sudo is or wget

cheers for site dude and also sandals remark

IanW

You do know that FireFox 3 will break the email client on the laptop?

Have a read of this -

Acer Aspire One Tips and Tricks The road to Elysium

I got hungry when i started reading abut yum

DaveBeck

iTrader: (12)

Cheers mate

but what the hell does this mean lol


If you want Firefox 3 to be installed properly (via yum), you should add the remi repository:

# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-8.rpm
# rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpmEdit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo, and set enabled to 1 under [remi] and NOT [remi-test].

Then we proceed with removing the old Firefox and installing the new one. Now, a regular yum remove firefox won’t work, as it’ll drag a buttload of dependencies with it. However, this will only remove Firefox, without its dependencies:

# rpm -e --nodeps firefoxThen install the new one:

# yum install firefoxThat’s all there is to it.

Now, having said that, a friendly chap named Nacho Marin made me aware of a problem that had totally slipped my mind. It seems that there are several programs that are depending on some libraries that Firefox 2 has, and not Firefox 3. The Acer Aspire One e-mail client being one of them, and the RSS reader too. The missing libraries are libgtkembedmoz.so, libmozjs.so, libxpcom_core.so and libxpcom.so.

A big thank you to Nacho for the heads up about the library-files.

Update: It seems that several people were complaining about how the e-mail program kept shutting down for no apparent reason. It seems that they need more than simply the library-files. I believe I’ve located the files, and that you now should be able to have both Firefox 3, and the email client working. Give me some feedback to let me know how the script turns out.

I (Jorge) have made a script to make this a bit easier to fix, so stay tuned.

Update: Script is finished, instructions are as follows:

Become root and open a file named recover_firefox_libraries.sh:

$ sudo su -
# mousepad recover_firefox_libraries.shPlace the following in it:

#!/bin/bash
#
## Script to recover Firefox 2 libraries
## Jorge Barrera Grandon <jorge@atlantiscrew.net>
## Version 2
#
#
## Usage: ./recover_firefox_libraries.sh

WGET=`which wget`
RPM_URL="http://jorge.ulver.no/files/firefox-files.tar.gz"
MV=`which mv`
CHOWN=`which chown`
CHMOD=`which chmod`
RM=`which rm`
TAR=`which tar`
MKDIR=`which mkdir`
RMDIR=`which rmdir`

cd /root/
echo "## Getting hold of the Firefox-files.."
$WGET $RPM_URL

echo "## Unpacking the library-files.."
$TAR zxvf firefox-files.tar.gz

echo "## Moving library-files.."
$MV /usr/acer/bin/AME /usr/acer/bin/old.AME
$MV /root/firefox-files/AME /usr/acer/bin/AME
$MKDIR /usr/lib/firefox-files/
$MV /root/firefox-files/* /usr/lib/firefox-files/

echo "## Changing permissions and cleaning up.."
$RM /root/firefox-files.tar.gz
$RMDIR /root/firefox-files/
$CHOWN -R root.root /usr/lib/firefox-files/
$CHMOD -R 755 /usr/lib/firefox-files/

IanW

In english if it aint broken dont mess with it

DaveBeck

iTrader: (12)

ok if i downlaod something how do i install it. it just takes me to a screen and asks if i want to extract. i say extract and nothing happens