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hoboy
November 15th, 2008, 12:21 PM
I have just installed ubuntu 8.10 but I have also install some add-ons I think have done some damages, I want to reinstall firefox and need help if they are some command line commands one can use ?
Partyboi2
November 16th, 2008, 12:50 PM
Open a terminal and reinstall firefox
sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox-3.0
linux_tech
November 16th, 2008, 03:17 PM
First download Firefox .tar.bz2 file to your home directory, then run these commands:
cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.backup
[code]sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3*.tar.bz2 -C /opt
rm firefox-3*.tar.bz2
sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins.backup
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Installing Firefox from Mozilla-
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion#Removing
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