i know this has prob been asked before...

meisbob · 07-19-2006, 10:28 AM

ok i know you guys ahve seen thus question before, but how do you install firefox? i dontunder stand the directions on the site. i made a directory called fire fox and extracted it there... thats all i get from the instructions,

can anyone just tell me what to do now?

prozac · 07-19-2006, 10:31 AM

AFAIK you get all the firefox binary when you extract the package, so you are now ready to hit off to the web. just run firefox from that location or if you want you can add the path to the firefox binary in your global $PATH.

meisbob · 07-19-2006, 10:34 AM

when i click on the thing that says firefox it just says, couldnt find [program "my".. ans is the image sopossed to be a clam?

rickh · 07-19-2006, 10:44 AM

It appears that you may not yet be qualified to install a program from scratch. What distro are you using? Surely it has Firefox available thru it's package management system.

meisbob · 07-19-2006, 10:49 AM

whats a distro -.-

meisbob · 07-19-2006, 11:04 AM

if you mean like kind of linux, its called linspire

lockpicker · 07-19-2006, 11:19 AM

open the terminal
Go to /usr/bin
type ln -sf <location of firefox binary> firefox
now you're ready to roll
just use the Run Command Menu and type in firefox. Should help..

meisbob · 07-19-2006, 11:20 AM

whats the terminal?,and where do i type stuff in

meisbob · 07-19-2006, 11:38 AM

lol omg it kept saying couldnt find file "my" so i made a text file called my and now it works lol

lockpicker · 07-19-2006, 11:58 AM

well you gotta do whatever you can to get stuff workin!

Mirag3 · 07-19-2006, 07:34 PM

FYI, the terminal is the heart of linux - instead of double clicking you will often find yourself typing commands into a program called a terminal. You can find the terminal in the menu system of almost any distro (ie, distribution; or "kind of linux"). You should probably learn the basic commands:

cd directory - change directory to directory
ls - lists all the files in the current directory

sdexp · 07-19-2006, 07:40 PM

Reading a UNIX manual and BASH manual is a great place to start.

Try this one to start:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html

Mozilla software comes in binary format so it works on the machine without any building.

Other software may have to be built before a binary can be executed.