[CentOS] firefox 2.0

Fri Feb 2 19:48:34 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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
>   
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