Help A Newbie

tokmoh_pc · 05-22-2006, 04:16 AM

How do I install/upgrade Firefox? I'm using RedHat 9, and firefox on it is only version 1.x. I downloaded the recent version of Firefox, it was in tar.gz.
So can anyone please tell me howto install?

Thanks in advance

acid_kewpie · 05-22-2006, 04:38 AM

please use useful thread titles. why not something like "how do i install firefox"?

I assume double clicking the file would sort you out, but my way would be to open a terminal, run "tar zxvf firefox.tar.gz" to decompress it, "cd firefox" to get into it's directory and then run "su" to become root. in that driectory will be a script like "./install-firefox" which should run fine.

shawnbishop · 05-22-2006, 04:41 AM

Good Day

Firstly you need to unzip and untar the package

# gunzip firefoxpacklage.tar.gz
# tar -xvf firefoxpackage.tar

This will create a firefoxpackage directory.

# cd firefoxpackage.

Inside this directory there should be an INSTALL or README file, read this file and it will give you detailed instructions.Read this file by doing the following

# less README or less INSTALL

Hopefully this helps