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From: John Holden <wjholden@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:45:39
Message-Id: 439256DE.4070008@users.sourceforge.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5 by "黄飞"
1 daniel.huangfei@×××××.com wrote:
2 > the problem arised since my installation of firefox1.5rc series, i tried
3 > to find out any improper settings from about:config, but no luck.
4 >
5 > it was a clean emerge of mozilla-firefox-bin (a compiled version of
6 > firefox1.5rc-3 had the same issue). how come this would happen?
7 >
8 > the 1.5 version just works on Windows. but not for my gentoo?
9 >
10 > anybody here would kindly give me some advice?
11 > thanks in advance.
12 >
13 >
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15 > daniel
16 Use portage to update software; avoid installing/updating software
17 manually as much as possible to avoid the risk of breaking stuff.
18
19 Type "emerge --update mozilla-firefox" as root. To my knowledge,
20 portage does not provide the binary package of Firefox 1.5.x.
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23 john@linuxserver ~ $ eix firefox
24 * www-client/mozilla-firefox
25 Available versions: 1.0.7-r2 ~1.0.7-r3 *1.5_rc3-r1 *1.5_rc3-r2
26 Installed: 1.0.7-r2
27 Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
28 Description: Firefox Web Browser
29
30 * www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
31 Available versions: 1.0.6-r2 1.0.7
32 Installed: none
33 Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox
34 Description: Firefox Web Browser
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40 - John
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Re: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5 "Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila" <galiza.ceive@×××××.com>