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hmm.. I think you have to run firefox as a user (not root) so it can work. Try it. To install 1.01 on my mandrake (one user admitedly) I had the tar in my home folder. I untarred this using a gui (I just can't get the hang of the untar command) and then found the bashscript named firefox. I ran this in the konsole/terminal/whatever and it started the gui install of firefox. I hope this helps.
Thanks for your interest, al5929.
I realized that my problem is c and c++ libraries problem, i uninstall them and reinstall them and installation of Firefox runs correctly.
I have some questions about the way you get rid of the problem.
it was a freind that gave me this solution he told me that
if i have selected all the development tools during the mandrake installation
then a back ground service is also installed that can interfear with the operation of
many linux programs.
what the console commands do is to shutdown the service long enough
for the shell commands of certain programs to execute after a certain amount of time the service will
restart that is why it must be added to the console commands of all affected programs
programs that ihave found to be affected
firefox, thunderbird, netscape, real palyer(helix).
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