Firefox shutdown accidentally

[Stephen Liu]

Hi,

Is "galeon" available on net and it can be installed with;

# apt-get install galeon

Which website offers the package?  TIA

B.R.
SL



--- Low Kian Seong <ubuntu.low at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am lazy to re-write what i wrote on my blog ...
> so -> http://www.iosn.net/Members/platypus/blog/79/
> 
> On 6/22/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Tks for your advice.
> >
> > I'm now running Ubuntu Live CD and will install it on HD later
> after
> > running the same a while.  Then you advice will solve my problem
> there.
> >
> > One further question (I did not run Ubuntu on HD before), can I
> remove
> > the old Firefox with "apt-get remove firefox"/"rpm -e firefox" OR I
> > have to remove it manually?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > B.R.
> > SL
> >
> >
> > --- "Peter N. Spotts" <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 00:08 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > > Ubuntu-desktop-6.0.6 LiveCD
> > > >
> > > > While browsing Internet Firefox shutdown automatically.  This
> > > happened
> > > > several times after I succeeded setup pppoe connection.  I have
> no
> > > idea
> > > > how this would happen.  Any advice.  TIA
> > > >
> > > > B.R.
> > > > SL
> > > >
> > >
> > > Stephen,
> > >
> > > Until Ubuntu figures this out (and I've been reading many
> complaints
> > > about it), I recommend downloading the .tar.gz file from
> Mozilla.org,
> > > uninstalling the Ubuntu-supplied software, then installing from
> the
> > > tar.gz file. I've never had a crash with either 5.01 or 6.06
> using
> > > the
> > > Mozilla "direct" software. I suspect the same may hold true for
> > > Thunderbird, which I've also used on both versions of Ubuntu with
> no
> > > trouble.
> > >
> > > On the outside chance you haven't installed from the tar.gz file
> > > before,
> > > it's pretty painless.
> > >
> > > Call up a terminal, cd into the directory containing the tar.gz
> file,
> > > then at the prompt run:
> > >
> > > sudo tar -xzvf firefox.version-info.tar.gz -C /usr/local
> > >
> > > After you give sudo your password and hit enter, the tar command
> will
> > > unpack the tar.gz file into /usr/local/firefox.
> > >
> > > When the unpacking ends, put a symbolic link to firefox's
> executable
> > > in /usr/bin thusly:
> > >
> > > ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox  /usr/bin/firefox
> > >
> > > Hit return, and you're done.
> > >
> > > It should work for you after that...And if you have your
> extensions,
> > > themes, and plugins in /home/~/.mozilla, the new install should
> pick
> > > them up.
> > >
> > > This may seem like a kludgy work-around from an Ubuntu purist's
> > > perspective, but it gets the software running. I've used this
> > > approach
> > > with a couple of other distros I've tried, and it gives me the
> most
> > > consistently reliable results.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Pete
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