Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie
On Friday 17 June 2016 11:50:49 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 17 June 2016 16:29:51 Dalios wrote:
> > On 06/16/2016 08:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > snip
> >
> > > There seems to be sort of a "quantum dis-entanglement" in this
> > > browser transition (and I am reading between the lines, thinking
> > > your problem is related to this) because in one swell foop they've
> > > disabled the help menu's of quite a few programs that used
> > > iceweasel as their reader for html docs, whether it was a file on
> > > your own machine, or a link to a site on the web serving up the
> > > latest docs, which of course do NOT apply to the 3 year old stable
> > > versions of the programs served up by the repo's
> > >
> > > I solved it here the hard, no doubt totally unapproved way, I
> > > copied /usr/lib/firefox to /usr/lib/iceweasel and then made
> > > softlinks in the copied directory from iceweasel to firefox. And
> > > those programs that serve up their help menu's with iceweasel are
> > > once again "fat, dumb, and happy".
> > >
> > > Tain't right, it will not be updated, but in that event I'll just
> > > edit the softlinks to actually reference the real thing & nuke the
> > > rest of that directory as wasted disk space.
> > >
> > > I have no clue what they were thinking when they yanked iceweasel
> > > out by the roots. I doubt they even considered that something else
> > > might be dependent on iceweasel/iceweasel as a name.
> > >
> > > What should have happened was that iceweasel was updated to be an
> > > empty package except for that /usr/lib/iceweasel directory and the
> > > softlinks to firefox.
> > >
> > > Grrrrrouuuufffff in the general direction of TPTB.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Thanks for your effort and your feedback but I don't think that is a
> > good solution for me. Maybe I should try re-installing firefox...
>
> Have you tried upgrading again? There may be some new updates. And
> have you done full-upgrade? (dist-upgrade in apt-get)? To get rid
> of old stuff that will now get in the way.
>
> Lisi
No I haven't Lisi. The last time I did that, I had to start all over
again, building me an install I could use. That was at least a year
back. It ripped put all the linuxcnc related stuff for starters, I guess
it thinks email and web browsing is the only thing we do with these
machines. Easily fixed by me except for freecad which will not install
on this final wheezy anymore, but...
I build these machines for ME to use, and if it works and is stable, as
in still works next week too, well... It will probably run that way
until I update with a new install.
If someone tells me I shouldn't do that which I just did to solve a very
real problem, then along with their finger sharpening, they had better
be able to explain what is wrong with what I did, in factual terms AND
how to solve it the _proper_ way.
Thanks Lisi.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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