Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 11/06/05

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    Philippe Grenard wrote:

    >Le Dimanche 06 Novembre 2005 09:13, Mark Grieveson a écrit :
    >
    >
    >>Hello. Mozilla is not working properly on my computer. How do I
    >>completely remove it (including the configuration files) and then
    >>reinstall it? When I've tried via synaptic, I'm told that all of gnome
    >>will be removed with it. Is there a way to just remove the mozilla
    >>browser? I'm using Sarge.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >to remove it completely :
    >apt-get remove --purge mozilla
    >to reinstall it :
    >apt-get install mozilla
    >
    >
    This will not purge the user files, which may be where the problem lies.

    Rather than reinstalling moz, try starting it as a different user, or
    try renaming your~/.mozilla directory to get it out of the way; then see
    if Mozilla works properly.

    Also, you're not out of space on a partition, are you?

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