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    Firefox 3.5 problem in Fedora 11

    Hi friends
    I am new to this forum site. This is my first post here. I use fedora 11. Few days before unknowingly I deleted the mozilla and firefox folders from /usr/lib. Actually i was trying to update it, but did not update. Therefore I removed firefox from my system, at this time I also removed the two folder (mozilla and firefox). Now the problem is, when I try to install firefox using
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    yum install firefox
    This does not work. yum says it has no match for firefox. So, I downloaded a .tar file and extracted it. I do not know what is the problem but the files firefox and firefox-bin both do not run from the terminal. I changed the directory to, where I downloaded firefox, then I issued the command
    Code:
    sh firefox.sh
    But it said, there is no such file.
    Now, is this a problem because I removed the directories from /usr/lib. If so please tell me where to create the necessary directories. One more question, where are the firefox directories located after I download and install firefox using
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    yum install firefox
    Thanks in advance.

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    Hi blueprats,

    Have you tried to remove the software through YUM?
    Code:
    # yum remove firefox
    Maybe there's some sort of conflict between the yum index and the physical files, or lack there of, on your machine. Firefox is definitely in the Fedora repository. Do a YUM search and see what the result is.

    When you do install Firefox via yum, the files are typically stored in your "/usr/lib/" or "/usr/lib64/" directory as "firefox-{whatever the version number is}/". Are you running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Fedora?

    You can also do a global search on your system for Firefox and see what comes up:
    Code:
    $ locate firefox
    or
    $ locate -i firefox # this does a non-case-sensitive search
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    Hey
    Thanks for the reply
    # yum remove firefox
    I have already removed firefox from the system
    Do a YUM search and see what the result is
    I did the yum search, but it say no match found for firefox
    Are you running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Fedora
    I am running a 64bit version of Fedora 11
    $ locate firefox
    or
    $ locate -i firefox # this does a non-case-sensitive search
    I did knew this command, thanks for that. But the search results are only the folders where I have downloaded the firefox.
    Maybe there's some sort of conflict between the yum index and the physical files, or lack there of, on your machine
    What do you mean exactly by that? If there are conflicts, how can I sort these conflicts. Any advice or suggestion will be highly appreciated.

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    Hi blueprats,

    I wish I could give you specific examples, but I'm not on my machine when replying to you. There seems to be something wrong with your repository. Firefox should be in there. Find your "Repository Manager" and see what you have selected. I think you can find it by clicking on "System | Administrator | Add/Remove Packages". The "repo manager" should be an option in the file menu. It'll look something like this:

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:...tall_Media.png

    See if this link can help you. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/user-g..._software.html
    Marc F. | fergytech.com
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