So, another thing I found odd about Fedora Core 4 was that it had Firefox 1.0.4 installed in the base package. After updating everything, it then had Firefox 1.0.7. Annoyingly, it actually had both installed still and neither are the latest Firefox 1.5.0.1 that is currently available as of this writing.

So, to fix all of this, the first step I did was to go to the Firefox site and download 1.5.0.1, which comes in a zipped tar file. Now package here to help out. I had to uncompress it and move it into /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1, the same area as the other installations of Firefox. Now I have three versions installed. Lovely.

So, to remedy this, I ran "yum remove firefox" and let it remove the older two versions. This was quick and painless. Firefox was still running so it left behind a file, but that was easily removed.

I think had to get Firefox 1.5.0.1 all linked up. I copied the firefox script into /usr/bin and edited it to change /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib since that's where I put it rather than in the other lib directory. Finally, I launched it. Except that I didn't. It failed looking for libstdc++.so.5. Some googling later, I resolved this issue by installing "compat-libstdc++-33" with yum.

And now I'm typing all of this in Firefox 1.5.0.1. Now I just have to get some extensions set up so it's a better browser. :)

Posted by Shane on February 20, 2006 5:26 PM | Permalink