Mozilla Firebird Installation
 

Hello, I am a newbie, I need to install mozilla firebird 0.7, could you please explain in detail what do I have to do to install it?

My Distro is Mandrake 9.0

it dont matter what distro you have, all you need is the firebird sources, get them then run
./configure --whatever options you want
make
make install

be sure you check the requirements on the web site so you have all the dependancyies

No reason to ./configure; make; make install as they are binaries..

Just extract it and cd into new directory.. then type: ./MozillaFirebird &

And it should launch and run..

It is extracted at home/user1/MozillaFirebird
There are two directories chrome/ and components/
what exactly do I have to do?

Well there should be more directories than that but simply type now in the MozillaFirebird directory like I stated before:

./MozillaFirebird &

And it will start Firebird..

It doesn't work

Error messages and how did you extract it? Which download did you do?

Also note.. Linux is case sensitive.. you will have to type it exactly like:

./MozillaFirebird &

While your in the MozillaFirebird directory in your users home directory you extracted it to..

I opened the tar.gz file with conqueror and copied the folder that was in there to the /home directory (it has worked almost any time I tried it). Then?

I cut and pasted it but it still doesn't work.

No, do this in a terminal:

cd ~

tar xzvf MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

cd MozillaFirebird

./MozillaFirebird &

Word of advice.. learn to use the command and don't depend on the GUI to perform such tedious tasks..

/bash: ./MozillaFirebird: No such file or directory
[1]+ Exit 127 ./MozillaFirebird

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

These are the console errors.

Redownload it again to your home directory the try the steps again.