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From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:52:22 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Then run gconf-editor while still logged in as root. Then drill down on
>the left hand tree to:
>
>    desktop | gnome | applications | browser
>
>There you will see exec. My value there is firefox.
>
>My question: How does the system know which firefox binary to run?
>Either somewhere else firefox is mapped to a path or the main pain has
>the firefox directory on it?


   You have just discovered the key to all of "internet browsing".   In my
system, I have a shell script in my path  /usr/bin/firefox  . This controls
which version of the browser to call.   So I installed firefox 2.0 into
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0 .  Then I copied the 'firefox' shell script from the
new firefox-2.0 folder over the old firefox.

  I had to edit the shell script to refer to my firefox 2.0 installation
path.

There was still one more step to the puzzle.  I got the error

/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directories


 The answer (as everyone learned in grade school) was -

yum install /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5

   Hey, if they made this stuff easy, everyone would be using Linux.  (Must
be an MS conspiracy).

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