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• Started 13 years ago by namT
• Latest reply from Wozza
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   Wozza
   

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   Hello - noobie here. I've recently installed SliTaz on an old Dell D600 laptop, and it's fantastic to give the old beast a new lease of life! I do have a few questions, though, to tidy up a few bits of the installation.

   I've downloaded the latest version of Firefox to my home directory, and used Mojo's instructions to modify the menu pointers. All works fine when I'm logged in as me, but other users are still pointing to the original installation of the older version (which I downloaded using Tazpkg).

   How do I replace the default installation of Firefox for all user profiles?

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   christophe
   

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   preferred way: install in /opt instead of in your own home;

   Detais:

   install the default firefox (link appears in all menus of all users)
   download latest firefox linux version from FF site
   su to root
   as root,: mkdir /opt
   extract the tar file content to /opt
   at this point some manual checking is required:
   locate the firefox executable: should be /opt/firefox/firefox, as shown by: ls -l /opt/firefox/firefox
   if it does not show up issue the command to find it: find /opt -name firefox -print
   (and adapt instructions below accordingly)
   then save the old firefox: mv /usr/firefox /usr/firefox.old
   create a new link in usr directory: ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
   you can always revert to the save /usr/firefox.old

   have fun. Slitaz is amazing for these older machines ;)

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Wozza
   

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   Thanks Christophe - your instructions worked like a dream!

   And yes, SliTaz is amazing - my old laptop took 10 mins to load up Windows XP or Ubuntu and used to thrash the hard disk constantly. It's now running just as fast as my desktop for the applications I want (web browsing etc).

   Posted 11 years ago #

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