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NoOp wrote:
> On 03/02/2007 07:34 AM, Steve Grace wrote:
>
>> Next time I'll check the Ubuntu Forums but I thought I was alone with
>> this one. :-)
>>
>> Steve
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>
> BTW: on my test machine I found out that if you "apt-get remove firefox"
> the whole system (Gnome wise) craps out on a 'killall gnome-panel' or
> reboot.
>
> I thought, well I'll just remove the 4 updates and simply install
> Firefox 2.x from the mozilla website. Easy enough to install FF 2.x from
> Mozilla, *not* so easy/wise to remove "Ubuntu's Firefox". Seems that
> Ubuntu has used FF as a meta package:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> firefox firefox-gnome-support gnome-app-install gnome-core
> gnome-desktop-environment gramps-help mozilla-mplayer yelp
>
> I ended up having to reinstall the infamous ubuntu-desktop to get things
> working again.
>
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>
Please don't remove Firefox, to get your system to play nice you should
be using dpkg-divert and co. Look here on how to do it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion
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