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
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:
- Download firefox tar.gz
- 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.
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
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:
- Download firefox tar.gz
- 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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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:
- Download firefox tar.gz
- 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.
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.
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:
- Download firefox tar.gz
- 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.
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