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Firefox 3.5 and Googleearth maybe others

Asked by Richard A Bevis

I installed Firefox 3.5 and as I didn't see any reason to keep the old version of Firefox, I removed it. However, now when I go to a link in Googleearth it gives me an error message that says "Could not launch any web browser. Please make sure you have set the $Browser environment variable to the filename of the web browser we should launch!" So, how do I do that? Thank you in advance for your help. Richard

P.S. Using Jaunty

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Richard A Bevis (ra-bevis) said : 		#1

When I try to open a link in my email (Evolution) something similar happens. I get an error message that says "Could not open the link. Failed to execute child process "firefox" (No such file or directory).

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

the 3.5 is not an update but a seperate app, to launch it you run /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 so if you link it to /usr/bin/firefox then it will take the place of the original version which you have removed

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Richard A Bevis (ra-bevis) said : 		#3

You gotta love this command line stuff. Bless you actionparsnip!

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Richard A Bevis (ra-bevis) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Yep, thats where the power is. Gui is good for daily stuf but if you want to work with complexity or power then fire up a terminal (or in my case press F1 to lower tilda from the heavens)