On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:22:34 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> I adopted your practice, with thanks; but it kept putting them >> back. >> Now I see only "disable" buttons instead of "uninstall" -- I hope >> at least disabling lasts longer. > > That's because you didn't run firefox as root. You have to be root in > order to uninstall the language packs. Users can only disable them, not > uninstall them. But I did. Over and over, once you told me I could do it with a CLI launch from a root prompt; and it kept putting them back. > My procedure is this to su to root, then run firefox. Uninstall the > languages (and that dom-inspector thing). Close firefox. Run firefox > again (as root.) Close firefox. Exit root user. Done. I'll try it once more. And dollars to doughnuts they all come back. Probably the very next time I update Firefox; certainly when I upgrade my OS. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
