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Henrik Carlqvist <
Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> John Forkosh wrote:
>> So what did I do wrong, and how do I upgrade firefox so that it actually
>> works?
>
> My guess is that you got yourself a system where the installed packages
> didn`t match.
>
> Maybe you downloaded the firefox package from the patches directory of
> Slackware 15.0 and installed on your Slackware current. Maybe you
> downloaded only the firefox package for Slackware current and tried to
> apply that to a four mounths old installation of Slackware current.
>
> Trying to cherry pick only a few packages from the /patches directory of
> a stable version of Slackware might give different kinds of trouble and
> the same of course also applies to the allways moving target alpha
> version that Slackware current is. regards Henrik
Did my preceding followup show up on your newsreader???...
Some additional googling solved the problem...
(a) downloaded script latest-firefox.sh
from
https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672798
(b) then ran the script to create
mozilla-firefox-117.0-x86_64-1ro.tgz
(c) then, as root, ran
upgradepkg --install-new mozilla-firefox-117.0-x86_64-1ro.tgz
Now everything works with the new firefox 117.
Hmm... was my problem above that I used --reinstall
rather than --install-new as used here?
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John Forkosh ( mailto:
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