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Installing Firefox

#1 User is offline   AndreRoux 

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Posted 27 December 2004 - 05:32 PM


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#2 User is offline   egorgry 

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Posted 27 December 2004 - 07:01 PM

You can install mozilla anywhere you like usually it's in /usr/bin it sounds like you may have installed it to somewhere in your home directory. If so you can execute it by creating a shortcut to it using the full path to firefox.

/home/andreroux/firefox/

what distro are you using and version? What desktop KDE, GNOME? You may have better luck installing the pre compiled binary for your distro. if it's fedora or mandrake just get the RPM for firefox if it's a debian based distro just type apt-get install mozilla-firefox.

Need more information about your hardware and linux distro to help on teh sound problem.
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Posted 27 December 2004 - 09:43 PM

Howdy egorgry

If you want all your internet aps (browser, mail, ftp-progs) under one parent-folder I'd recommend you install firefox like this ..

1: Create destination folder ...
by opening a console and entering this command ...

Code:
user@box: mkdir -p /usr/local/internet/firefox


the "-p"-switch will create all necessary directories too, in case those ain't present. In our case not only the folder "firefox" would be created but also the folder "internet" in case there isn't such a folder already.

2: Install firefox ...
by following the steps of the GUI-installer and specifying /usr/local/internet/firefox as target-directory.

3: Create symbolic links to the firefox-aplication...
Once more we're gonna do this in the console: Enter the command ...

Code:
user@box: ln -s /usr/local/internet/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox


to create a symbolic link to firefox in /usr/bin. This folder should always be in the path, so this oughta make finding the firefox-executable much easier. A simple "firefox" in a console will then launch the browser.

Alternatively you can also create a desktop-shortcut to /usr/bin/firefox to have the browser available via mouse click, or enter the realm of menu-editing and place a shortcut therein.

hope that helps
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#4 User is offline   AndreRoux 

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Posted 28 December 2004 - 05:25 AM


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#5 User is offline   bamaG33K 

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Posted 07 January 2005 - 06:43 AM

Originally posted by egorgry:
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...if it's a debian based distro just type apt-get install mozilla-firefox.

Well that helped me. I'm using Libranet 2.8.1

Thanks!

Paul
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Posted 07 January 2005 - 07:35 AM

AndreRoux,

To get root access, open a terminal and type

Quote:
su


It sould then ask you for your root password.
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