How start new Palemoon instead of preinstalled version ?

[rolandradio]

How start new Palemoon loaded on the fly Palemoon.sfs (32-bit).
When I start Palemoon, still the old preinstalled version starts up.

Linux Tahr still starts version 25.8.1 instead of 33.0.2.
Linux Xenial the same problem.

Both puppies are 32-Bit version, but 64-bit has also the same symptoms.
Remove build in packages Palemoon makes no sense.

[mikewalsh]

@rolandradio :-

Where are you getting the Pale Moon SFS package from? It's entirely possible the SFS package has a sym-link for Pale Moon in /usr/bin.......and a sym-link cannot overwrite a regular file. So the original file will always take precedence, and if you haven't removed the built-in version, I'm afraid it WILL fire up.

Mike.

[rolandradio]

Palemoon 32-bit packaged is from Bionicpup BB over get browser, the other is from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... 4/browsers

Wenn I remove the build in palemoon, this is happen:

root# palemoon
bash: palemoon: command not found
root# palemoon2
root#

Where palemoon2 get from ???

usr/bin/palemoon2file (77 bytes - Aug 2014)

#!/bin/sh
rm /usr/bin/palemoon
ln -s /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon

[rockedge]

@rolandradio I looked at the palemoon 64 bit version you mentioned. The menu entry the SFS brings when loaded is looking to start "palemoon" so the system will look at the $PATH directories to find it to execute it.

So this should work:

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rm /usr/bin/palemoon
ln -s /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon

Open a terminal and try palemoon and check the result.

[bigpup]

If you get the latest version of Pale Moon the way it says here:
viewtopic.php?p=112242#p112242

It offers 32 and 64 bit versions from Pale Moon.

Tahr and Xenial are Ubuntu based. So the ones for Ubuntu should work.

It will just install over the version that is in the different Puppy versions.

After that the Pale Moon help->Check for updates should provide any future updates.

Note:
There is a Pale Moon v28.0.0 pet in the Xenial pet packages here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/

It is the first version of Pale Moon to have internal update.
I have installed it and used the internal update to keep getting a newer version.
The 64bit one should keep working to do this.
Not sure about 32bit version.

I think it will also work with Tahrpup

[mikeslr]

If bigpup's suggestion doesn't work you can do the following:

Download Mikewalsh's portable from here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 4251#p4251. Right-Click the 'tar.gz' or 'tar.xz' file and select an extractor from the pop-up menu. Rename the extracted folder to just 'palemoon'. Move it either to /opt or your Home partition --/mnt/home.
Open /usr/share/applications/palemoon(-something) in a text editor and change it to read:

Exec=/opt/palemoon/LAUNCH
or
Exec=/mnt/home/palemoon/LAUNCH

depending on where you've located the palemoon folder.

Alternatively, you can just click the Menu-Add script within the palemoon folder. This will create a menu entry for 'palemoon-portable'. But your menu entry for the old version of palemoon will still be displayed.

Mike's portables are update-able. I recommend locating Mike's portable at /mnt/home. It's set up so that everything relating to it is 'self-contained', most importantly web-cache will be keep out of RAM.

[rolandradio]

Bigpup

I installed Pale Moon v28.0.0 pet and this version works in Xenial, but not in the 64-bit version, but we focussing now only on the 32-bit Xenial.
Update doesen't work, it says: The latest version number could not be retrieved, .... check internet connecton, but internet connection is there, the same message also wenn I start Palemoon then about and then check for updates.

Mikeslr, youre right, i try your suggestion.

b.t.w Could some ubuntu packages 18.04 also work with Xenial 7.5 ? (Xenial is based on 16.04)

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Just a Test:
I installed Palemoon_33.1.0-1.gtk2.bionic_i386.deb

Then this error:
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/palemoon/libmozsqlite3.so:
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_7.0.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/palemoon/libmozsqlite3.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.
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[textcolors]

In my case Palemoon = /opt/palemoon (version 28.0.0 is in here)

Install this version from your link:
https://software.opensuse.org/download. ... e=palemoon

PaleMoon-portable32.tar.xz
Then: wrapper exited with a error