Has anyone downloaded firefox 2.0 and tried it? I just did. I am very confused. I download the firefox-2.0.tar.gz Untared it and the readme.txt was one sentence. nothing useful. There is no install**** anything. The URL the readme.txt mentions to the release notes, does have a "install" link, but it doesnt say anything about actually installing. All it says in one sentence is "install firefox 2 will overwrite your existing install". I am stuck.... Has anyone else installed firefox 2 and can share. I know there is seamonkey now but it is broken for the functionality I need. I was hoping it is fixed in firefox 2.0. Thanks, Jerry
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:> I just did. I am very confused. I download the firefox-2.0.tar.gz > Untared it and the readme.txt was one sentence. nothing useful. > There is no install**** anything.Here's the install procedure: 1. Download firefox tar.gz 2. Unpack That's it. Well, you could go further and put firefox in /usr/local (for example), and set up symlinks or something to get firefox 2.0 to run (or use the alternatives system to have both installed on your box). Hope hat helps a bit! Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 i686 GNU/Linux 09:04:30 up 13 days, 8:09, 3 users, load average: 0.35, 0.77, 0.88
One think I don't understand in all this Johnny. See below... Johnny Hughes wrote:> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:06 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >>> I just did. I am very confused. I download the firefox-2.0.tar.gz >>> Untared it and the readme.txt was one sentence. nothing useful. >>> There is no install**** anything. >>> >> Here's the install procedure: >> >> 1. Download firefox tar.gz >> 2. Unpack >> >> That's it. Well, you could go further and put firefox in /usr/local (for >> example), and set up symlinks or something to get firefox 2.0 to run (or >> use the alternatives system to have both installed on your box). >> >> Hope hat helps a bit! >> > > Right ... it is not an RPM, and it is pre-compiled. > > I put mine in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0 and did an ln -s > of /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox > > I then copied the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins > to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin and then removed /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins > and created a ln -s from /usr/lob/mozilla/pligins > to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins. >Why did you move the plugin out of 2.0/plugin, then create a symbolic link back there??? This is not computing for me.> All seems OK on my 2 workstations I did that too, however I am not sure > everything is working 100% at this point. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
oh. Another problem. See below. Johnny Hughes wrote:> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:48 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> One think I don't understand in all this Johnny. See below... >> >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:06 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I just did. I am very confused. I download the firefox-2.0.tar.gz >>>>> Untared it and the readme.txt was one sentence. nothing useful. >>>>> There is no install**** anything. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Here's the install procedure: >>>> >>>> 1. Download firefox tar.gz >>>> 2. Unpack >>>> >>>> That's it. Well, you could go further and put firefox in /usr/local (for >>>> example), and set up symlinks or something to get firefox 2.0 to run (or >>>> use the alternatives system to have both installed on your box). >>>> >>>> Hope hat helps a bit! >>>> >>>> >>> Right ... it is not an RPM, and it is pre-compiled. >>> >>> I put mine in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0 and did an ln -s >>> of /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox >>>I am getting permissions problems. /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.1.firefox has: -rwxr-xr-x So I can't figure out where my permissions go wrong. No problem running it from root!>>> I then copied the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins >>> to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin and then removed /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins >>> and created a ln -s from /usr/lob/mozilla/pligins >>> to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins. >>> >>> >> Why did you move the plugin out of 2.0/plugin, then create a symbolic >> link back there??? This is not computing for me. >> > > because /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is where many things put plugins ... I > just put them all in there and sym linked that where firefox-2.0 wanted > it to be. >OK. Got it.