Comments on Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO : Update Firefox

plein d'infos avancées et de tutoriels de pros. Bo...

2006-12-26T00:57:00.000-05:00

plein d'infos avancées et de tutoriels de pros. Bonne continuation pour ton blog Hugues!

Julien

Salut! j'ai survolé ton blog linuxien et ça m'a l'...

2006-12-26T00:50:00.000-05:00

Salut! j'ai survolé ton blog linuxien et ça m'a l'air pas mal technique et approfondis. En tk bon succès!

Hi Henry,Just make sure you follow the exact instr...

2006-12-11T15:49:10.220-05:00

Hi Henry,

Just make sure you follow the exact instructions. For example, when you refer to
mkdir -p ~apps
it is a mistake. The real command (refer to the tutorial is) :
mkdir -p ~/apps

Make sure you follow the exact commands.

Installing firefox is just one command really :
tar zxf firefox-2.0.tar.gz ~/apps/

Then you just link the existing

I tried to use the instructions to upgrade the FF ...

2006-12-11T15:27:18.630-05:00

I tried to use the instructions to upgrade the FF 1.5.0.8 bundled with Ubuntu 6.06 to FF 2.0, which I am used to using with Windows, with the following result :

mkdir -p ~apps
mhenriday@mhenriday-desktop:~$ tar zxf firefox-2.0.tar.gz ~/apps/
tar: /home/mhenriday/apps: Not found in the archive

But under '/mhenriday/', I did find a folder called 'apps'

Being an

I tried it before itself with all symlinks set on ...

2006-12-05T07:59:14.123-05:00

I tried it before itself with all symlinks set on to firefox's plugins dir,but firefox locally installed will show big/ugly fonts and misspelled local languages in Debian/Ubuntu.In Debian,Iceweasel(fork of ff2) is rendering all pages correctly!is there any hack that will make firefox t have font setup correctly