On 25Feb2006 17:25, Ishtiaque Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I downloaded firefox from mozilla.com .
Fine.
| I did everything u said
| ya a folder with firefox's file created in */opt/firefox-1.5.0.1*
Excellent. And is there an executable called "/opt/firefox-1.5.0.1/firefox"?
Also, did you make the symbolink links in /usr/local/bin?
| >From KDE Menu Editor I changed firefox command : *firefox %u* to
| *firefox-1.5.0.1 %u *
|
| still firefox is not opening .
|
| But when I changed *firefox-1.5.0.1 %u* to *firefox %u* Its open
| pre-installed firefox version .
|
| Did I mistake?
I would guess that the $PATH in KDE does not include /usr/local/bin.
| what do I do now ?
Close your running firefox, if any.
Get a command prompt, in a terminal.
At that command prompt, try each of the following commands:
/opt/firefox-1.5.0.1/firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox
/usr/local/bin/firefox-1.5.0.1
/usr/local/bin/firefox
firefox-1.5.0.1
Each of those should start up a firefox, hopefully the new one.
If all of those are good, edit the KDE firefox command to be:
/usr/local/bin/firefox
Test that.
Note that because that uses the /opt/firefox symbolic link, that will
let you control the version of firefox by adjusting the /opt/firefox
symlink later.
Your next problem is the KDE executable search path.
Generally, the desktop GUIs do not source the same files as your shell
startup, and instead every new terminal window runs a "login" shell, that
sources all the usual startup stuff.
This is bad UI setup in my opinion because it makes terminals needlessly
slow to open. Nonetheless, it is what is done (there are practical
reasons for this).
The consequence of this is that the executable search path _inside_
a terminal is generally useful and what your startup files arrange,
but the search path for the GUI as a whole is a little bare and spartan.
And that is why you may need a full path like "/usr/local/bin/firefox"
in the KDE setup menu in order for KDE to find the firefox you want.
Firstly, putting a full path in the KDE setup will solve this problem.
Secondly, there may be a KDE setup option to control the search path;
if you find it you may be able to put /usr/local/bin towards the front
of the path and revert to using the shorter "firefox" in the other
configuration setup.
Cheers,
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