I just installed mandrake 7.2 cause windows crapped out. You are probably like oh my god 7.2 you have to go and spend hours and hours figuring out how to get something better. Well to be honest i dont care/dont know enough about linux to bother. Im tryign to take my food handlers test online but i need a better browser than the netscape that came with 7.2, obbviously. So i downloaded Firefox!, and i just got this tar.gz file and when i open it it just takes me to a folder with a bunch of crap that i dont know what to do with. I cant seem to find any readme or installation instructions. Can anybody help me? Please use very descriptive instructions, since I am very new to linux.

hi there

go to that folder where it has ben extracted and run
./firefox-installer

and it will proceed from there after
and it will generally install in
/usr/local/bin/fire-fox
to run it go to that location and run
./firefox

regards

if you downloaded the file i think you downloaded, just launch "firefox-installer" in the firefox folder you uncompressed.

When i goto the tar.gz folder and try to open firefox-isntaller (simply by clicking on it) it gives me the option to open it in advanced editor, or save to disk. When i save it to disk and try to open it it doesnt do anything

himthere
u nd to go there form a shell prompt
lilke
cd /fire-foox.....(whatevere is the path)
then
./fire-fox-installer (whatever is the name)

regards

The tar.gz file is in /root. I'm pretty sure i cant change directory into that file to get to the firefox-installer file, i saved that file to disk in the /root directory. But when i type./firefox-installer in that directory it says no such file.

did you uncompress it?

tar xvvzf name_of_firefox_file.tar.gz

cd name_of_firefox_file

./firefox-installer

Okay so i did that command and it extracted it. So now i have the folder firefox-installer with all the stuff that was in the tar.gz. When i go into the folder and try ./firefox-installer i get the following error:
./firefox-installer.bin: error in loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

um, i don't really know what i'm talking about, but all successful firefox installs i've ever done on linux systems have been as user and installed to the /home/user directory

i would just try to copy the new folder from /root to /home/user, logout and login as user, and install that way.

I tried logging on as user but it locks the folder, and when i tried it as root in the home/user folder it comes back with the same error.

I guess, i need to find a friend with a win2k cd

i personally would find a freebsd cd. cd /usr/ports/www/firefox, make install clean, and you've got firefox installed

i think you're dealing with a dependency problem on linux though.

hi

i think u are not havingthe latest library of gtk
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
installed which is giving u problems
since u r using a older version of mandrake

regards