Firefox install

Ab3n · 02-05-2005, 02:05 PM

hey guys,

Sorry to ask such a dumb question, but how do I go about installing firefox? I use gentoo 2004 and I have the firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz.

secesh · 02-05-2005, 02:07 PM

tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
cd firefox-1.0
(or whatever)
./firefox-installer

that should get you there... otherwise ls for the command name

Ab3n · 02-05-2005, 02:16 PM

every time I do that I get this error:

Code:

bash: ./firefox-installer: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

I get this when I install it as root to.

Adony · 02-05-2005, 02:18 PM

If you use gentoo you do not need to install packages that way or you are making the portage system useless ....
To install firefox you should do
#emerge mozilla-firefox

And it will be automatically downloaded and installed along with is dependencies (if any) ..

To check the packages available to gentoo from portage take a look here
http://packages.gentoo.org/

Ab3n · 02-05-2005, 02:29 PM

emerge is great!

Thanks Adony