hello

my question is very simple!

i use slackware linux 10 (with no kde or gnome) and i really don't know much about linux. to install software i used installpkg and to remove i used pkgtool.

now i want to install firefox 9.3 and i don't know how to do it.

the only guide that i can find is this one http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=firefox

i have "firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz", now what should i do? i know nothing, sorry.

and why does this file say "i686"? all other packages that i installed said "i386"

thanks!

hello,
first, you must untar your file :
you will get a folder named firefox-installer.
cd into it
and run as root firefox-installer or something like that.

in order to run it, you must have gtk installed

thank you le_coyote

i had to startx and double click "firefox-installer" to start the installer, how can i install it if i don't startx? i tried to just write "firefox-installer" and it says that it can't find the command, etc.

my question now is, where to install it? it asks for a folder, where do i install?

you can't install it without starting X because it's a gtk program. it needs a graphical interface.
to launch the installer, type ./firefox-installer (under X )
i believe he asks you a folder. if you want to lanching it fast (by typing firefox in a shell), put it in the /bin or /usr/local/bin.
when it will be installed, create a shorcut on your desktop
and for more documentation on firefox (plugins...), you have three bookmarks to mozilla doc

something like ./"enteryourcommandherewithoutquotes"

why are you running it with out kde or gnome? just wondering?

They do explain how to install it on their website - I'm sure...
As I know it - I'm running version 0.9.1 - you are supposed to install it to your home directory - any directory therein will do - but does the installer not ask for a name while alredy providing a default (something like ~/firefox)?

Of course you will have to run X to be able to install - since the installer uses a graphical setup - as well as to use it - it is a program for use in a graphical environment like X

to install - change to the directory the downloaded and unpacked file is in and type: "./firefox-installer" - this will start the setup-procedure....

i686 means that the program is compiled against a P-II or higher archtecture. It may not work on a lesser machine. Of course, who would want to use it on less than a P-II? It runs like molassas on a slower machine.

many thanks for your fast and nice replay's!

mikedeatworld: fluxbox is better... kde or gnome are too fat, too big, i don't like them.

the only think i need to do now is add firefox to the fluxbox menu, i will read the manual hehe.

stupid question!!! whats better /bin or /usr/local/bin ? hehe

thanks!

no one is better, linux will look in these folders :
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin/
/usr/games
~/bin

so you can install in one of these directories

kde 3.2 is not too fat (less than 3.1 and older)
gnome is not too ugly but i prefer kde

i installed in usr/bin/firefox

When I attempt to execute firefox-installer for v. 0.9 it fails with the error:

(firefox-installer-bin:5558): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

It is being run under an xterm, so X is running. All the latest gtk packages have been installed. This is under Suse 9.1 kernel 2.6.5

This is preventing me from upgrading from v. 0.8, which I installed from the distribution CD using YaST.

Jon_Roland:

why don't you use the firefox-0.9.3-i686-pc-linux-gtk2+xft-deDE.tar.gz (that is the most recent and the germanized version) I mean, why dont you use the ....tar.gz package which is in english or even localized for some other language available?
You do not install it but rather unpack it to a directory under your ~/ (home) directory and run it then from there - of course you could unpack it into /usr/local/bin or anywhere else and use it system-wide for all users.

It still needs you to have gtk2 ! and xft installed to work however - if you do not have these libraries installed neigther the installer nor the tar.gz version will work for you! But since you want to upgrade - you should have these dependencies solved.

Re: Firefox-installer gtk error

Thanks for the suggestion of the tarball, but what I started with to get the firefox-installer file I tried to execute is firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz. Got it from the www.mozilla.org site. Unpacked it with tar -zxvf firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz Haven't found an alternative downloadable file to start with. gtk2 and xft are installed, so I don't know where the error is coming from. OS is suSE 9.1 2.6.5.

Why don't you just download firefox from linuxpackages.net, the package from that website is a .tgz file, which means you only need to installl it, like you would install any other slackware program,
or then just choose install from current.

sorry my mistake is not packageinstall, it's