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"Dumb question" time again. I went to the mozilla-firefox site and downloaded Firefox 1.0.2 onto my Debian box. I moved the firefox-1.0.2.installer.tar.gz file to /tmp and then typed
tar -xzvf firefox-1.0.2.installer.tar.gz
The files extracted and created a firefox-installer directory. I typed cd firefox installer and found both a firefox-installer and firefox-installer-bin file (among others). I didn't see a README.txt file. I *thought* I could just type firefox-installer-bin to begin the installation but all I get is a command not found response. I'm logged in a root and root is the owner of these files. I've tried to google the answer without success (get mostly information about RPM packages). What am I missing here? Thanks.
Root has no Xauthority if you are logged in as a user (as you should). Copy ~/.Xauthority to /root/ and try again. You will have to do this every time you want to run something graphical as root, the .Xauthority file is recreated upon login.
Originally posted by Moloko Root has no Xauthority if you are logged in as a user (as you should). Copy ~/.Xauthority to /root/ and try again. You will have to do this every time you want to run something graphical as root, the .Xauthority file is recreated upon login.
There has to be another way to do that. I can't remember if I ever had the same problem and just fixed it, (it's been 2+ years since I have installed Debian on this box) but I don't have to do that in order to run anything graphical as root.
Originally posted by Moloko Root has no Xauthority if you are logged in as a user (as you should). Copy ~/.Xauthority to /root/ and try again. You will have to do this every time you want to run something graphical as root, the .Xauthority file is recreated upon login.
I must be misunderstanding what you are saying here. It looks like you are saying for me to use the cp command to copy ~/.Xauthority to /root/. Here's the result:
tripwire:~# cp ~/.Xauthority /root/
cp: `/root/.Xauthority' and `/root/.Xauthority' are the same file
tripwire:~#
Moloko, could you flesh out how I'm supposed to implement:
Quote:
$ xhost +local:root
$ non-network local connections being added to access control list
here? Just typing it returns a command not found
error. Thanks.
The xhost command is part of the xbase-clients package:$ dpkg -l xbase-clients to see if you have it. I read that using xauth (same package) is a better way (more secure).
Firefox 1.0.1 installed automatically and was added in the Applications -> Internet menu. I added it as a panel item. Nothing else seemed to be working (at least for me) however I do appreciate everyone's time and effort. Thanks.
I tried your suggestion Moloko and got this:
tripwire:~# dpkg -l xbase-clients
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 miscellaneous X clients
tripwire:~#
Last edited by tripwire45; 04-01-2005 at 02:11 PM.
Hi, I just upgraded to Firefox 1.0.2 using a simple apt-get update/upgrade tonight.
Did you configure your sources right in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?
Could save you loads of trouble..
I never install from tarballs or rpms .. Why bother ?
In Debian, use apt-get, properly configured . In Mandrake urpmi, and
you're done
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