[gobolinux-users] Firefox won't update

[Andy Feldman]

It's a permissions issue. You are running as a normal user, 
and /Programs/Firefox is not writable, so it can't be updated. As Thomas 
mentioned, the "right" way to upgrade is to use the GoboLinux tools rather 
than the built-in Firefox updater, but if you want to use it, just give 
yourself write permissions to the Firefox folder. (I'd suggest you do this by 
chown-ing it to your usename, so other logins still can't write to it.)

If you do this, I'd also recommend changing the folder to something 
like /Programs/Firefox/2.X/ so you know it's nonstandard and not being 
managed by the Gobolinux tools. I managed it this way a while ago when 
Firefox didn't yet have a nice recipe.

-Andy

On Friday 08 February 2008 16:46, Daniele Maccari wrote:
> Thomas Queste wrote:
> > I'm using the latest firefox package (not the recipe) and this one won't
> > update. I'm talking about the update feature built-in firefox (Menu
> > 'Help' > Chek for update...).
> > The version in the about dialog is 2.0.0.3 (Community edition).
> >
> > Do you know if this update is working ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas
>
> It doesn't seems to me. You should issue "Compile firefox" instead, as
> it also has an updated recipe which allow you to install the java plugin
> automatically when compiling the sun-jdk recipe.
>
> Bye
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