2008/8/25 vijay kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Member, > When i trying to remove xulrunner 1.9 through synaptic > automatically removes mozilla and other dependencies. > so how I install xulrunner 1.8? > or again i have to remove all files and install again? > please reply,
Hi Vijay: This is one of the reasons we don't provide installation instructions for Ubuntu 8.04; there are still too many workarounds required for it. That being said, you should not have to uninstall xulrunner-1.9 to install xulrunner-1.8 (which is just called "xulrunner" in the Universe repository of packages for Ubuntu Hardy). Both packages will co-exist on the same system. However, your default xulrunner binary might be linked to xulrunner-1.9 instead of xulrunner-1.8. Try running this command: $ ls -l `which xulrunner` On my system, it shows that the xulrunner binary is linked to "/etc/alternatives/xulrunner": lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-01-22 00:32 /usr/bin/xulrunner -> /etc/alternatives/xulrunner This is good news; it means that Ubuntu is aware of multiple versions of xulrunner, and we can switch between them easily using the "update-alternatives" command. First, we list the available alternatives: $ update-alternatives --list xulrunner /usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9 Then we can set the preferred alternative. In my case (an Ubuntu 7.10 system that was upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04), "/usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner" must be xulrunner-1.8 by process of elimination. If you have installed both "xulrunner" and "xulrunner-1.9" you might have an explicit xulrunner-1.8 alternative to choose from instead. So I can issue the following command to make xulrunner-1.8 my default version of xulrunner: $ sudo update-alternatives --set xulrunner /usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner Then when you run "xulrunner --version" you should see that it is xulrunner 1.8. I hope this helps. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
