Clean-up with several iceweasel/firefox installed

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Aug 11 22:30:26 UTC 2016


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:55:30PM +0000, commentsabout at riseup.net wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A couple of months ago, I asked on this list how to migrate from Iceweasel
> to Firefox (thread: Migrate from Iceweasel to Firefox on Debian Jessie). I
> received valuable help from "Fran Glais" off-list and managed to migrate.
> 
> Today, I'm facing another problem. It looks my system is polluted with
> several firefox/iceweasel versions.
> 
> Screenshot: https://s9.postimg.org/b29e9frsf/noname.jpg
> 
> CLI:
> 
> noname at pc ~ ls -la /usr/bin | grep firefox
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root     113 Aug  3 02:28 firefox*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root      30 Aug  3 02:36 firefox-esr ->
> ../lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root      22 Aug  3 05:07 firefox.real ->
> ../lib/firefox/firefox*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root      30 Aug  3 02:36 iceweasel ->
> ../lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr*
> 
> I would like to use the latest (release) version, not the ESR one.
> 
> How do I remove older versions/aliases and set the latest release as
> default?

apt-get remove firefox-esr

Mike



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