[SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox

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jeffpmc

[SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox

Post by jeffpmc »

Hi all, I am using 64 bit LMDE. I recently tried updating Firefox from 14.0.1 to Firefox 16 but failed :( .
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

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chmod
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.
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jeffpmc

Re: Problem Updating Firefox

Post by jeffpmc »

Could anybody please provide me some help? Thanks a lot!
mack_mcash

Re: Problem Updating Firefox

Post 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
jeffpmc

Re: Problem Updating Firefox

Post by jeffpmc »

Thank you so much Mack!
It works like charm!! :D
bigbenaugust

Re: [SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox

Post 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.
mack_mcash

Re: [SOLVED] Problem Updating Firefox

Post by mack_mcash »

@jeffpmc

I am glad it worked for you, you're welcome.
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