Marc Fromm wrote:
I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have
tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a
program like firefox.
I did "sudo pkg_add -r firefox" as explained in chapter 4 of the
handbook and received the message:
pkg_add: package 'firefox-1.5.0.8,1' or its older version already
installed
I then tried to uninstall firefox like this:
sudo pkg_delete -d -f firefox-1.5.0.8,1
It appeard to uninstall.
I next did "sudo pkg_add -r firefox" again and it did this:
Fetching
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest
/firefox.tbz...
Done.
===> Building Chrome's registry...
======================================================================
SMB issues:
Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly.
SFTP:
Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily
setup public key authentication to "remote_host":
ssh-keygen -t dsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"
The SSH sever on remote_host must allow pub key authentication.
Firefox now does not work at all and if I rerun the pkg_add command it
states firefox-1.5.0.8 is still installed.
Isn't the latest 2.0.0.9?
I tried to instructions at firefox and they did not work:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Linux
Marc Fromm
Information Technology Specialist II
Financial Aid Department
Western Washington University
Phone: 360-650-3351
Fax: 360-788-0251
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FreeBSD is not a Linux type environment at all. It is a Unix type from
which it was derived.
I don't recall if you have to "rehash" after uninstalling or not. Did you?
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