[CentOS] firefox 2.0

Fri Feb 2 20:41:15 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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.