See the [EDIT] above 
Sorry, no idea about the icons… has this only started happening since you deleted the Firefox 2 directory ? … though I can’t see how just deleting the FF2 directory would cause that.
Did you delete or uninstall anything else ?
BTW, I’ve just updated the Firefox 6 instructions to Firefox 6.0.1
If you want the Italian version, replace the wget command with:
wget -O firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-6.0.1&os=linux&lang=it"
See the EDIT’s above xD
Thanks but how do you know im in italy? xD and anyways no thanks the version i somehow got to work is in italian xD Btw it actually did download the 6.0.1 before too, to me atleast xD
Was this the last command you entered ?:
sudo tar -jxvf libstdc++6.tar.bz2 --directory /opt/firefox
If so, you can leave the other stuff… and if it isn’t, I’m VERY surprised firefox is working.
Games… there ARE some games available that will work on the AA1, but they aren’t (normally) easy to install.
I haven’t actually got an AA1, so I can’t really help you there… I DID know od a site, but it’s down now… sorry.
[EDIT]
I know you’re in Italy from your IP address 
BTW, you might want to follow the link for updating the Flash Player too.
the last thing i entered in your guide is the download thing but the things i entered from the other guide were
cd ~/Downloads/
tar xjf firefox-6.0.tar.bz2
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox6
EDIT: yeh i suspected so xD
OK, I’m lost… what other guide ?
Sorry xD another guide i found on another site, it was easy but didnt work till now, maybe it needed the reboot to work. do you want the link? if so i’ll edit it here
Please
Are you sure you’re running Linpus Lite ? … because those instructions are for Ubuntu/Mint and SHOULDN’T work in Linpus Lite ?
[EDIT]
Deos your desktop look like this ?:
totally sure, yeh same desktop but for the mobile thing icon, i have the MSN icon there, by the way, after the flash player update it returned to firefox 2.0 .___. following your guide to the last now on
Remember to change the wget line to:
wget -O firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-6.0.1&os=linux&lang=it"
If you want FF6 in Italian
[EDIT]
Well I’m totally baffled how Firefox 6 started, as Linpus Lite doesn’t contain libstdc++.so.6 which is needed by Firefox 6, so needs to be installed during my instructions.
VERY ODD :o
Thanks. No I have the FF6 in Downloads. Found the /opt, but it doesn’t show up in shortcut view at all, only in tree view- really don’t understand their directory structure- it seems to be a mess compared to Ubuntu. In OPT only have directories: Adobe GKxdatacard
I don’t have a user name- I recovered this beast, and when I try to do a password it wants an old one- anyone know what the default one was (00000?), so the folder in home directory is USER. It is funky- had some SSD problem and it wasn’t booting up for 6 months, when I rapped it on the sides it worked, Was going to dissemble it, but problem hasn’t returned in a few weeks.
Kind of scared to try this- what is terminal command to open old FF (mine’s 3 but not in /opt) if 6 doesn’t work well.
You say you don’t know the “user” password… as far as I’m aware it doesn’t ask for one
what happens if you enter:
sudo mousepad
and hit enter.
does it ask for a password ? … if so try leaving it blank … does mousepad open ?
[EDIT]
We’d have to find where Firefox 3 got installed… do you know where on the system it is installed ?
If not, can you post the output from:
sudo find / -name firefo*
The password is 111111
And you can execute “sudo su -”, then you can be the super user.
The default password will no doubt be a very handy piece of info for a lot of users… Thanks
I still contend that using sudo -s (for CLI commands and NON-GUI apps, see the WARNING and CAVEAT below) is better than using both sudo and su in the same command… though you’d probably get away with it 99.99999% of the time, you are effectively stacking 2 sets of PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) rules… Now I know that pam is supposed to be able to stack rules:
But I still contend using sudo -s to achieve an interactive root shell “as user” and using the “user” password (and therefore a single pam authentication rule) is a better idea
Not to mention the fact that if ~ is used in a path as part of a command (to represent your home directory), it will still represent your “user” home directory… whereas with sudo su, ~ will represent the /root directory. … though I suppose I should add a warning and caveat here:
WARNING - Creating, or editing and saving anything in your “home” directory whilst running as root (by any method, eg. sudo, sudo su, or sudo -s) will cause it to be created/saved with root as the owner and group… ie. it will NOT (or no longer) be owned by the “user” account… so use with caution.
(if you intend to make any changes in your home directory, it’s best done from a normal user $ prompt, rather than a root # prompt)
CAVEAT - If you intend to run any GUI (grapical) applications from the command line “as root”, getting to the root prompt with sudo su would probably be a better idea, as graphical applications may save their configuration files in the “home” directory, and you don’t want the permissions to have changed in your “user” home directory.
(similar to the sudo Vs gksudo argument for running GUI apps in GNOME)
I think my point is… be aware of the difference(s), and what can happen. :o
Well, I did it with ~/Downloads/FF and it worked OK. I followed your instructions exactly + it put it in Downloads (my default dir for, ah, DOWNLOADS!!! ha ha). That’s what I was asking- how can it know where that file is- you have to tell it. But the lib6 file went into /home. Shoulda downloaded 6.1 (any important fixes in that?), but why be current- more fun to do the same thing over and over. Actually once it was running, did it (6.0.1) off the website- hope that doesn’t bung up the Linpus version. It wants to update the flash player too- will it understand + do the LINPUS version… or break it. Did this initially offline, and it opens OK without asking for that last file in your dropbox (6.0). Already redirecting from main icon so not sure what creating new profile is for. But I’ll dutifully install it- I don’t know enough to alter your edicts, and who knows what its online behavior is. Will there be an option for the old FF3.0.3 in the right click advanced menu, or can I make that? Did the find /firefox* search but it found nothing (you need name?) Actually the new profile was annoying, losing all my bookmarks, windows, add-ons; so I went back to default, which also uses 6.0.1. Couldn’t find an import profile or settings tab.
I think the default behavior for Linpus is some crazy loop that gave everyone su priviledges and defeated all security provisions of the Linux password. Read some post on it and several people concurred, inc my roommate who was just snapped up from Ukraine by Google NYC. It would ask for password on petty stuff, but allow one (or any hacker) to do major changes without it! Please do explain more what each of these arcane instructions do (great that you do)- most of us understand general principles so can tweak things, so we don’t have to ask you dumb questions. First you said you don’t have to reinstall new Flashplayer, then you said you should- actually it wasn’t playing Daily Show anyway, but never tested it properly. Good- can set a real good password so next time I dont use it for 4 months, it’s a doorstop.
If you’d followed the instructions (using wget) rather than “manually” downloading the Firefox archive from the Mozilla website… the location of the Firefox archive would have been irrelevant as the wget command would have downloaded it to the current directory, and the next command would have unpacked it from the current directory to /opt
If you “manually” download it from the Mozilla website, you would either have to cd into the directory that you downloaded it to, or amend the path in the tar command.
There is no special Linpus version of FF6… the wget command just downloads the normal Linux version from the Mozilla website, to the current directory.
I’m guessing either Mozilla have changed the libstdc++ version requirement for FF6, or Linpus have sent the newer version through as an OS update, because you are the second person to say they didn’t need that file… I’ll leave it in the instructions because it won’t hurt to have a copy in the /opt/firefox directory, and if I take it out you can guarantee someone will need it
The ONLY reason for creating a new profile, is because the FIRST time you start FF6 it will update the databases in the current profile… meaning you would no longer be able to use that profile in the old version of Firefox (if you ever needed to).
I said IF YOU’D ALREADY INSTALLED THE NEW VERSION OF FLASHPLAYER… there was no need to RE-install it
Anyway… glad it worked out for you
Instructions updated to Firefox 6.0.2
Topic split at this point, because it went a little off topic, and wasn’t “really” related to (or caused by) the instructions in this topic.
Split to here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/netbooks/linpus-lite-messed-up-file-system/
@ teebee … go to the above link.
ANY other postings related to installing Firefox 6 using the instructions in the first posting of this topic… post them here
I’m using Firefox 2.0.014 & am trying to install Firefox 6 following the instructions. Using terminal, what exactly does “connection refused” mean? Is something not working properly?
I know wget has worked as I can see the firefox-6 bz2 file listed in file manager.
The extract comes up with “Connection refused” followed by
firefox/
firefox/mozilla-xremote-client
etc.etc
Create plugins seems to have worked without a problem
Change group to user just says “Connection refused”
Is something going wrong or is it normal??
I’m usually good with computers but linux is new to me.
Thanks.
The “connection refused” error is a known bug in sudo on Linpus Lite.
You can either safely ignore it and continue regardless of the error (works for most people).
Or
For every command that starts with sudo … change to a root prompt with:
sudo su
the prompt should then change from an $ to an #
then enter the same command, but leave off the sudo from the beginning.
you can exit the root prompt (for commands that DON’T start with sudo), by entering
exit
in the terminal and hitting enter.