firefox qustion

bubagump17 · 05-27-2005, 06:49 AM

I installed firefox to file:/home/tony/firefox-installer
Now What Do I do ?
Im using suse 9.1

perfect_circle · 05-27-2005, 06:55 AM

type:

Code:

 /home/tony/firefox-installer/firefox

to run it

bubagump17 · 05-27-2005, 06:58 AM

Do i have to tun it out of the konsole all the time

mrcheeks · 05-27-2005, 07:01 AM

If you had used a suse package, it would have created a desktop menu, etc. for you. You can edit your kde menu or keep running it from the console.

bubagump17 · 05-27-2005, 07:03 AM

How do i get a suse package an where?
I tried rpms but they didnt work
In the teminal i did yast -i then the rpm
it made the icons but it wouldnt lanch

perfect_circle · 05-27-2005, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bubagump17
Do i have to tun it out of the konsole all the time

open a console and browse to:
/home/tony/firefox-installer/icons/

there type:

Code:

convert mozicon50.xpm firefox.png

then on your desktop create a file:
firefox.desktop
and put inside those lines:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Application;Network;
Comment=
Comment[en_US]=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=./firefox %u
GenericName=Web Browser
GenericName[en_US]=Web Browser
Icon=/home/tony/firefox-installer/icons/firefox.png
MimeType=text/html
Name=Firefox
Path=/home/tony/firefox-installer
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-StartupNotify=true
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Now you should have yourself a desktop link for firefox.

bubagump17 · 05-27-2005, 07:30 AM

Its says theres no such comand as convert

perfect_circle · 05-27-2005, 07:42 AM

the convert is a command from the ImageMagick package to convert pictures from one format to another.
I asked you to do that because KDE seems to have better support for png that xpm.
You may use gimp to do that.
browse to the icon directory, open the image with gimp and save it as firefox.png

andygo · 05-27-2005, 07:47 AM

ln -s /home/tony/firefox-installer/firefox /bin/firefox
do it ONES and "firefox" will become one of your "system commans" %-) then you may do with it whatever you want (create a desktop icon %-)