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Re: firefox showing wrong version



 On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Mick Timony wrote: 

> 
> I presume you've stopped are restarted Firefox since upgrading? 

Correct.   Since the mozilla.org-supplied version has proven to work, I've 
completely removed the distro-supplied one. 

Scott 

> 
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 08:20 -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>> On Dec 8, 2007 4:03 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>> On my Ubuntu Gutsy system with a recent apt-get update/apt-get upgrade: 
>> 
>> Just an FYI.  I have not run the standard 'upgrade' option to APT in 
>> about 3 years.  I found it only necessary to always use 
>> dist-upgrade... 
>> $ sudo aptitude update 
>> $ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade 
> dist-upgrade is supposed to be used to upgrade from one version of a 
> distro to a newer version. For inexperienced users dist-upgrade is 
> likely to bork (break) their system. Most users should use safe-upgrade 
> as it will install any security fixes and leave you with a nice stable 
> system. 
>> -- 
>> Kristian Erik Hermansen 
>> "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mick Timony 
> -- 
> 
> I thought there was something fishy about the butler.  Probably a Pisces, 
> working for scale. 
>                -- Firesign Theatre, "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" 
> 
> 


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