On Friday 18 March 2005 18:12, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > Richard Harke wrote: > > When I first installed firefox it refused to run. After googling about I > > found the advice to do xhost +. Based on this thread I should have > > rejected the advice leaving me with two alternatives: > > > > 1: download the firefox source and debug it. > > > > 2: apt-get purge firefox (followed by a nasty email to somewhere) > > Have you tried firefox directly downloaded from Mozilla.org? No, I didn't. Which seems like a reasonable thing to do. But it is not such a small matter. One probably ought to remove or purge the version from debian first, then at some point you will need to uninstall the Mozilla.org version before re-installing the debian version (after the problem is fixed) While I am not rule bound about using only deb packages, I have found that apt-get does a surprisingly good job while my experience with tarballs has varied from easy to nightmare.
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