[Wylug-help] Problem installing Firefox on Fedora 4

Yiannis Gatsoulis menig at leeds.ac.uk
Fri Feb 3 09:47:13 GMT 2006


Jim Jackson wrote:

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>On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Andy Macdonald wrote:
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>>(Still as superuser - I've done "cp -r /root/.mozilla /home/{user}" and
>>"chown -R {user}:users .mozilla", which should enable {user} to run the
>>app as well).
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>No don't do that. AFAIK there are embedded file references in some of the
>files which will point to /root/.mozilla which at the very least will be
>unwritable - and maybe unreadable depending on the permissions.
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>If the .mozilla directory does not exist Firefox will create it.
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>The other probs are lack of the right libs - JH has provided info.
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>Jim
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Yes Jim is right. Try also running
$ firefox --profilemanager
and create a new profile in case your default one is somehow corrupted.



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