firefox problem

Jaime Alvarez jalvarez at ieee.org
Tue Jul 13 20:00:52 UTC 2004


I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora Core 1.

Jaime

> Re: firefox problem
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> From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org>
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> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
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> Subject: Re: firefox problem
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400
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> Jaime Alvarez wrote:
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> > I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version
> > yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to
> > install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the original
> > mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works
> > fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update was needed
> > and i agreed to it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
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> it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. ( installation
> of XFree86 )
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> FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list to see
> if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be possible )
> installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86 packages in
> favor of the Xorg packages.
>
> -- 
>  Mark
>
>  Linux user because anything else is just insane.







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