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i don't know much about linux... my friends use it so im also trying to use it. i got the slackware 10.1 disc and installed it with no problems! my computer (compaq notebook 100) is bad/slow and i also prefer a minimal system with no good looking or anything like that, so i installed only the first disc with no kde or gnome, and im using... xfce or whatever as my windows_something, my internet conection is working! i used ping and i got a reply.
now to get started i will need a file browser, i remember that when my friends in the past installed slackware in this computer they installed "xfe" which is very good because it is simple and does everything! i don't know where i can get and how to install it, could anyone guide me?
please remember:
1- i have no internet browser installed, i can use microsoft windows to get the file and then with slackware linux go to the place where the file is to install
2- i know NOTHING about how to install it
after this i want to install mozilla firefox, where should i install it? i mean, in what folder/where? and xfe? thanks
xfe requires fox, and neither are available as tgz's from http://www.linuxpackages.net for 10.1 yet ... I don't know
whether fox requires MORE stuff to be installed prior to
xfe ... I'd suggest trying mc in an xterm ;)
From your past posts, it seems you really should apply yourself to reading some documentation. Expecting to be spoon-fed is antisocial and wasting other people's time. Please be considerate!
A good starting place is the Linux wiki on this site; you should also look at the Slackware handbook if you want to continue using that distro: http://www.slackware.org/book/
It's not really hard, it's just a bit more effort than doing
an "installpkg xfe-<blurb>.tgz" .... I don't have fox installed,
so can't tell you what it needs, it may be just the two things
you need to compile from source...
but thats a window manager, i just want a file browser
by the way, my other question about where to install software
after this i want to install mozilla firefox, where should i install it? i mean, in what folder/where? and xfe? thanks
How about you download the source, read the instructions
and get started, and when you get stuck come back and
ask? :) After all it's about Linux-Questions, not "Can you
do it for me?" ...
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