From: Randall Parker 

Mike N. wrote:
>
>
>    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  .

Turns out my /usr/bin/firefox is a shell script too. I wonder if the
Firefox people created it or did the Fedora people create it?

>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.

Mike,

Thanks for your response. I am now optimistic that I can upgrade Firefox on
Linux before the weekend is over. I can proudly go to the office tomorrow
and tell people that I upgraded Firefox on Linux in the space of a single
weekend. I'm sure they'll be green with envy.

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

Of course. You get a shell script with the browser that you have to edit
and copy to /usr/bin in order to upgrade Firefox. How user friendly.

>
> 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
>

I got that too. Why doesn't their release note tell you you need it? Does
Fedora Core 6 have it while Fedora Core 5 does not?

>
>  The answer (as everyone learned in grade school) was -
>
> yum install /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5

No need to tell the newbies that they have to be logged in as root to do
any of this. They teach root logins in 5rd grade now don't they?

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

That's it.e

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