How to remove and install app. on Linux?

[MasterMind]

Hi all,

I just purchased an AspireOne yesterday and I was misled by the sales person. He said a lot of people bought it and install the XP by themselves, and it has 2 slots, and the battery last for 5-6 hours, etc.

After I checked the posts here, according to what I've seen, XP runs very slow on this one, because of the SSD dirver. So I think I need to stick it with Linux for a while.

My problem is that I've never use Linux before. I saw there's FireFox 2.14 install on the machine. I've download 3.0 from mozilla.com. But I don't know how to remvoe the older version and install the 3.0.

Would someone care to share?

Thanks.

 

[darfel]

you have to do the "Advance mode hack" and then you have access to the right click menu. There you can see an option to add/remove software.

Since you've downloaded the package, you should first remove your existing firefox and only after that install the new one.

 

[Guest]

Anyone done this yet?

 

[Guest]

Be careful, I just removed firefox v2 by the application manager and it lost the desktop and everything, so I am already having to rebuild.

 

[speekergeek]

I am new to linux/linpus and had no problem getting the advanced mode. but i dont understand all this talk about "fedora" and installers. I am also trying to install firefox 3.0 but can't find adequate support info. is there an absolute newbies guid to this out there?

mike

 

[Kev50027]

I too am wondering how to replace Firefox 2 with Firefox 3. On Windows, you just install, FF3, and it puts it over FF2. How exactly am I to go about doing this?