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[SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:42 am
by jeffpmc
Hi all, I am using 64 bit LMDE. I recently tried updating Firefox from 14.0.1 to Firefox 16 but failed
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Firefox 16 does that start after extracting the tar.bz2 file downloaded from the official website. When I tried running it from the terminal, it gave me the following error message.
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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/jeff/firefox16/libxpcom.so:
libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.
I tried using
to change the permission but it didn't work. There isn't a package called libxul.
Could anyone please give me some help? Thank you.
Re: Problem Updating Firefox
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:38 am
by jeffpmc
Could anybody please provide me some help? Thanks a lot!
Re: Problem Updating Firefox
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:47 am
by mack_mcash
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http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=86176&p=641270#p641270
Here is the basic info (edit as root):
Basically:
1) Edit "/opt/firefox/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js" or "/opt/thunderbird/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js" and change line 2:
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pref("app.update.channel", "default");
into
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pref("app.update.channel", "release");
2) Execute firefox or thunderbird as root.
3) Go to "Help -> About Firefox" or "Help -> About Thunderbird" and update it just like in windows.
Just remember to run firefox from "root" in order to update, then close FFx from root and then use FFx as your regular user.
good luck, mack
Re: Problem Updating Firefox
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:03 am
by jeffpmc
Thank you so much Mack!
It works like charm!!
Re: [SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:19 pm
by bigbenaugust
I got this error when I accidentally downloaded and installed FF16 32-bit on my 64-bit LMDE machine. Once I tried again with 64-bit FF16, it was fine.
Seems to me that you could also add a regular Debian experimental repo to your sources.list and get Iceweasel 16 with a little apt-pinning creativity.
Re: [SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:39 pm
by mack_mcash
@jeffpmc
I am glad it worked for you, you're welcome.