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(While the wife is crackin' at me for screwing up Windows....)
I downloaded and successfully installed Firefox. But how do I make a short cut. I tried Right Click...Link to App...but I never know what to link it to. Displayed are a list of .bin, .so
.sh.
Nothing fancy needed to create a shortcut to your desktop - I simply drag the Firefox icon from the extracted directory onto the desktop and then click "Link here" (using KDE)
Open up a xterm and type in the path to where Firefox was extracted such as /path/to/firefox/firefox and see if an error comes up. If so you may need to download a different firefox found here http://mozilla.gnusoft.net/firefox/releases/0.8/ and download the firefox with xft.
Remove the old firefox you extracted and extract the new downloaded tar package. I had to use this one in order to get firefox to work, it wouldn't work with the regular firefox package.
I tried the new download and same thing. Logged on as root...deleted the old Firefox Folder. Downloaded the new one, installed fine. I then go back to the folder and all the icons are listed. I tried (file:/root/Coop/FireFox/firefox/firefox) the firefox icon with the black screen and white page behind it. "Couldn't find program" is the error.
[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# firefox
bash: firefox: command not found
So I type:
[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# firefox
And I get Program cannot be found. I also tried to drag the icon over to the desktop but it says the same thing. Is there something simple (or huge) I am missing?
[root@h00a0cc5fd9d3 firefox]# ./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
the problem is not with the way you're starting firefox. As the message says,. you're missing a file. I'm not sure which package that would be in but it must be on the CDs. Go to mandrake control center and then to the software installation tool and look for a package that contains libXft.so.2 (use the search function).
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