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Firefox Downloading Files Error

I did a yum update on my computer and I now have a small issue with Mozilla Foxfire and downloading the Nvidia drivers:

I need the latest NVIDIA DRIVER but when I select it to download it opens up an other tab starts running the file like this:

Code:

#! /bin/sh

skip=947

CRCsum=750389129

MD5=c8d9e5657a19d9b1c96ffc0d771d7263

label="NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-9746"

major_version=1

minor_version=0

patch_version=9746

pkg_version=1

script=./nvidia-installer

targetdir=NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1

scriptargs=""

keep=n

add_this_kernel=

TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}

TARGET_OS="Linux"

TARGET_ARCH="x86"



#

# NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-9746

# Generated by Makeself 1.6.0-nv

# Do not edit by hand.



# NVIDIA Driver Installation .run file

#

# If you were trying to download this file through a web browser, and

# instead are seeing this, please click your browser's back button,

# left click on the link, and select "Save as..." (or do whatever is

# appropriate for your web browser to download a file, rather than view

# it).



# print usage information



if [ "$1" = "-help" -o "$1" = "--help" -o "$1" = "-h" ]; then

    echo ""

    echo "$0 [options]"

    echo ""

Eventually it will go into binary display :(
Under the preference folder I have the "Save all files to this folder" selected and I can't see any other options that would be messing me up

Suggestions?

How about doing what the file itself suggests?

Quote:

# NVIDIA Driver Installation .run file
#
# If you were trying to download this file through a web browser, and
# instead are seeing this, please click your browser's back button,
# left click on the link, and select "Save as..." (or do whatever is
# appropriate for your web browser to download a file, rather than view
# it).

Alternately, if you wait until the whole thing loads in your browser, you should then be able to go to file>save page as and save it to your disk. Simply rename the saved file back to the name it originally had and it should work fine.

EEEP!! :eek:
I did not actually read the file I got lost when all of the machine code started scrolling. Duh! :rolleyes:
Thanks I'll try one or both of your suggestions and let you know :)

Btw I see you are located in Osaka Japan.. that must be awesome :cool:

yum update has been working !great! until last night

---> Package kmod-ntfs.i686 0:2.1.27-2.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libparted-1.8.so.0 for package: nash
--> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 for package: yum
--> Processing Dependency: libparted-1.8.so.0 for package: mkinitrd
--> Processing Conflict: totem-xine conflicts totem
--> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 for package: bittorrent
--> Processing Dependency: python-abi = 2.4 for package: python-crypto
--> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 for package: python-crypto
--> Processing Dependency: python-elementtree for package: yum
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.8.so.0 is needed by package nash
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package yum
Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.8.so.0 is needed by package mkinitrd
Error: totem-xine conflicts with totem
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package bittorrent
Error: Missing Dependency: python-abi = 2.4 is needed by package python-crypto
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package python-crypto

THIS MORNING did a yum update and got fewer errors

Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package yum
Error: Missing Dependency: python-abi = 2.4 is needed by package python-crypto
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package bittorrent
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package python-crypto

I even tried yum update python to no avail!

In doing the yum update last night, seemed like there was an enormous volume of updates
I saw
a new kernel 2.6.19-1.2912.FC7
many things suffixed by FC7
Firefox 2.0

No updates were made due I guess to the error.

I am not a Linux newbie but I guess a yum newbie