Greetings all,

I am new to Linux and in the last 3 days have tried 3 different downloaded distros on my newly-built Athlon 64 4000+ system.
Right now I'm pretty much settled on Kubuntu, since I am fond of KDE.

First thing I did after installing Kubuntu tonight was to try and install Firefox 1.5, since it is a better browser than Konquerer.
(let alone Internet Exporer..hah) However, when I un-tarred the file into a directory, I found that the firefox-bin file will not execute. Now, I'm not sure what to do to get Firefox functioning. I have read that you only need to un-tar the tar.gz file into a subdirectory to get it work.

Is there a step I have missed?

I know it's probably been asked before, but I couldn't find anything regarding the bin file not executing.

Thanks in Advance

-- Crotalid

You must run ./firefox and not ./firefox-bin

I tried running the firefox shell script file. That doesn't work either.

I un-tarred my tar.gz file in my /usr/local folder, so that Firefox is in /usr/local/firefox. Would this cause problems?

-- Crotalid

What is the error you get you're trying to run ./firefox?
Mind that since you installed it at /usr/local then you must run it as root.

That's just it.. I'm not getting _any_ error message when I try to run ./firefox. Nothing happens at all when I try to click on the firefox shell script, which is what I think you're referring to.

You meant root as in root permission, right?

-- Crotalid

Open an xterm and run:. This should produce some output if there is something wrong. Else try to untar firefox in your home directory without being the root user and run it from there.
Yes, by default only the root user can write to /usr/local

i went to the directory where firefox was extracted and typed 'firefox' and whoa! the browser was up.
Now how the hell should I add this to my Menu Bar?
Thanks

use the full path for the command.

ex.

/usr/local/firefox/firefox