Thanks, another useful tip.
There is a .mozilla directory, but it seems to contain only the firefox profile. I’ll try a search for thunderbird and if it doesn’t turn up I’ll just move on. Not the end of the world 
They’ll be in the /home/user folder somewhere… that’s for sure.
Is there a .thunderbird folder in user home ? … make sure you’re in the home directory on the AA1 hard drive, and not the Ubuntu home folder (which is actually in RAM, or on the USB stick) 
Thanks, I’m just going to copy the whole home folder and worry about it later. I have just turned an external hard disk into ext2
Okey dokey… you might find it fails at .ICEauthority (if it’s still corrupt)… so it may be a good idea to copy them folder by folder. if you see what I mean.
You don’t need (or even want) the .ICEauthority anyway.
As a matter of fact, you may want to be fairly selective (at least as far as config files go) about what you replace after reinstalling Linpus Lite.
As a matter of interest… Are you planning on reinstalling Linpus Lite, or trying another more up-to-date Linux distribution ?
Seriously… unless there’s a good reason not to, I’d take this opportunity to switch to another distro… Linpus is WELL out of date, and an Ubuntu based distro will give you access to ALL the latest software, in an easy to use package manager… as well as being easier to find help/support for.
BTW, I’m off soon, but if you need help… I’ll be online pretty much all day tomorrow.
I am going to try going with Linpus Lite again, it is a friends netbook, not mine, and he is even more adept at breaking computers than me, so I’ll keep it simple
I have a couple of commitments tomorrow, but I’ll be back on the case tomorrow evening. I’ll try and make some progress tonight before I turn in. May even get Linpus back on, though that may be a little ambitious given the hour.
Thanks for all of your help, it is much appreciated.
No worries … I’m not off quite yet, but soon… As I said, I’ll be back tomorrow if you have any questions… good luck
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I hope you’re not drawing any conclusions about the speed of Ubuntu whilst running it from a LiveUSB… it would be much faster running from a hard drive
But if it MUST be Linpus Lite… so be it.
LOL, I take it Linpus isn’t a favoured flavour of yours
I have an old PC that I put Fedora 9 on some months ago and promised myself I would spend some time familiarising myself with a Linux distro, though as you may have gathered, I never got around to it. It did look quite impressive though and I must get back to it. This experience has left me feeling more than a little wet behind the ears!
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I was actually a little impressed with the speed Ubuntu was managing to run at over usb!
Linpus Lite is quite probably one of the daftest choices Acer could have made… it’s based on Fedora core 8 which is no longer supported or under active development.
Linpus Lite uses custom software packages, yet doesn’t maintain its own software repositories.
There will be NO new software for Linpus or Fedora 8 (or 9 for that matter, Fedora are now on 15) yet it cannot be upgraded to a later edition… if you get a problem (like uninstalling Firefox 2, which is ridiculously old), it is impossible to fix.
Getting ANY new software to run in Linpus Lite is always going to be a “shoehorn it into somewhere it isn’t supposed to go” kind of affair… and Likely to become impossible very soon, as the libraries contained in Linpus are now VERY old versions which most software won’t run on (and remember what I said about NO updates).
Granted it is pretty quick on limited hardware, and has a very simple user interface… which may have been a reason for the choice, but that no longer makes any sense (it never did)… something like Xubuntu would be just as quick, and will be supported into the future (not to mention the MASSIVE amount of up-to-date software available).
Put quite simply… (and for MANY reasons) Linpus Lite BLOWS CHUNKS.
I’ve ranted about it in the past, and will no doubt continue to do so… it was a STUPID choice to introduce people to Linux with.
You can read some of my rants and why I think Acer were insane (bordering on criminal insanity), here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/netbooks/messed-up-firefox-4-installation-on-an-acer-aspire-one/msg48941/#msg48941
(and the rest of that thread)
Does that answer your question
Heh… NO, not a big fan :o
No need to beat around the bush 
Linpus doesn’t appeal to me, it hides everything away and makes anything other than opening files or surfing more difficult and I take your point about software, I couldn’t believe how difficult it has been to upgrade firefox, if I had known what I was getting myself into I may have though twice
GOOD NEWS though, allowing the fsck to repair .ICEauthority has allowed Linpus to boot to its desktop
I’ve still buggered the browser though, as firefox is not loading. I get a ‘busy’ swirl on the pointer and nothing happens.
I’m going to turn in for the night, I have an early start, though will be back tomorrow evening.
Thanks so much for getting me this far, I feel I am almost back to the point before it all went wrong.
See you later
GOOD NEWS indeed… gimme a shout tomorrow evening, and we’ll fix Firefox
Firefox is a fairly straight forward fix.
That’s a relief! If you are still available to help me tonight I am now free for the rest of the night.
Ta,
Tony
OKey dokey… how far did you get with the instructions for installing FF6 ?
can you send the output from these commands, so I can see how far you got
ls -l /opt
ls -l /opt/firefox
ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
ls -l /opt/firefox/plugins
Sure,
ls -l /opt
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-06-03 18:29 Adobe
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2008-05-19 12:05 Adobe
There is no firefox directory in /opt. I *think that was the directory I removed before arriving here with my troubles.
[edit] Added command used to get output below
ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2011-09-16 16:02 /usr/bin/firefox -> /opt/firefox/firefox
The two directory paths above are highlighted in the terminal.
OK, carry out these commands in sequence… if you get any errors, STOP and let me know what they are.
cd ~
then
wget -O firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-6.0.2&os=linux&lang=en-GB"
then
sudo tar -jxvf firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 --directory /opt
then
sudo mkdir /opt/firefox/plugins
then
sudo chown user -R /opt/firefox
then
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /opt/firefox/plugins
then
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11876059/libstdc++6.tar.bz2
then
sudo tar -jxvf libstdc++6.tar.bz2 --directory /opt/firefox
Then reboot your AA1, and when it restarts… try Firefox and let me know what happens.
BTW, when you’ve done this and FF6 is working, we’ll install the latest flashplayer if you want
Firefox 6.02 up and running ;D
Fantastic, thank you!
And yes, if you could help me update flash too, that would be great.
See this posting:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/netbooks/acer-aspire-one-linpus-lite-flash-player/msg62581/#msg62581
Let me know how you get on, and any problems… you know where to come
Oh, and you’re welcome
That all went very well too and Flash is running fine
Thank you so much for your help, I can’t begin to imagine how much time I would have spent fumbling my way through without it.
One question, could you tell me what the meaning of the output I pasted earlier was, with one directory pointing ( → ) at another is with the directory paths highlighted?
ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2011-09-16 16:02 /usr/bin/firefox -> /opt/firefox/firefox
Thanks again, you now have hero status in my eyes!
the l at the beginning of
lrwxrwxrwx
means that /usr/bin/firefox is a symlink (shortcut in Windows terminology)
and the → is telling you where it is pointing
Thanks, now I’ll have to spend a little more time using Linux to try and retain all of this useful knowledge!
Well you now know where to come if you have any questions
Have fun.