On 6/3/07, JT Moree <moreejt@pcxperience.com> wrote:
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Dazed_75 wrote:
> OK, here is the issue: I want to get rid of the FF 1.5 and use the 2.0
> version only. I realize I can simply change the /usr/bin/firefox link
> to use 2.0. My question is how to properly delete 1.5 since there seems
> to be no uninstall and the package manager is not aware of it (it was
> originally installed using a Linux install link on the Mozilla site).
> Just deleting /opt/firefox/ may not be safe or complete.. Anyone know
> how to do this cleanly?
Can you run the 1.5 installer again and tell it to uninstall?
Nope, I can't find it anywhere and suspect I trashed it once FF was installed.
deleting
the directory is probably fine
My concern was anything that might point into that directory such as add-ons or preferences. But if there are any they would be wrong then anyway. Just wondered if there was any way to avoid any mess.
since 2.0 is setup to handle everything.
Actually, the 7.04
upgrade (or an earlier one) seems to have setup FF 2.0 so it would be invokeable from the command line using firefox.ubuntu. But it is not apparently invokeable from the panel icon or the Applications menu. The add/remove option in the Applications menu seems to show
2.0 is already installed in the menu but using that entry runs FF 1.5. That indicates to me that when FF2 was installed as firefox.ubuntu, the menu facility was no adjusted the same way. Ditto, the panel icon still ran firefox and thus still ran
FF1.5 due to the link in /usr/bin.
I fixed it by making a link in /usr/bin/ called firefox1.5 that points at the old version, removing the firefox link that also pointed at the old version, and making a new firefox link that points at the new version (and left the
firefox.ubuntu link alone). I have not yet removed the old directory, the link to it or anything relating to it from directories in my home space (those are the issues I was not sure about the best means).
the fact that it's all in opt is to make it easy to delete (/opt is the
place 3rd party apps are supposed to go).
Barring any further advice, my plan will be to remove /opt/firefox/ and see if that causes any problems I need to deal with.
BTW, I just noticed that ~/FF2/firefox/ seems to contain a FF2
(executables and all) dated 2006-10-10 so I suppose that was installed
with Ubuntu 6.10. Almost like the plan changed with each release and
no cleanup was done. All files still dated the same so I am thinking that dir can probably also be blown away (probably rename it first to make sure it is not in use).
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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