How to get rid of Firefox 0.8

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:17:11 -0400, Beartooth wrote:

> I wanted to upgrade to 0.9 ; various parts of the FAQ warned me to first
> remove all or part of 0.8 ; neither rm nor rmdir seems to work any more,
> nor rmdir -r nor -f, much less -rf.
> 
> So I tried to upgrade as best I could, installing extensions I had had and
> used on the machine the present one replaces. I got something, somehow,
> fouled up so royally that now I can't use Firefox at all.
> 
> So I *have* to get rid of it. But FC1 seems to have dumped any deletion
> command I can find, and replaced with something I can't. 

Concrete examples, please. Sounds like a typical PEBKAC.

It's so easy to install prebuilt Firefox packages from http://fedora.us