Hello,

I downloaded the firefox tar.gz , but can't get it to install.

When I use X windows, it's a folder with other files in it. None of those files do anything. I tried to click all of them, but one says "This appears to be an executable and Mandrake will not allow it".

When I go to it in a console window, it appears as a tar.gz file, but when I try to extract it , it says that it does not recognize it as a tar.gz file (although it's red like othe tar.gz file in Mandrake. I can't get into it like a directory either.

Echo Kilo

What command are you running while you are attempting to untar the package? Firefox is usually installed in Mandrake by:

1. (in terminal) tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
--this untars the file and creates a new directory
2. Enter the new directory
3. sh ./firefox-installer.sh

that is the way I have installed firefox a dozen times on Mandrake. Hope that helps.

I tried to tar it like you said, but it thinks that it's not a tar file and in KDE it's a directory, but I can't access it like a directory in the console because it thinks it's a tar file. Crazy.

you must use "gunzip" to unzip the file to a tar file first. then use the "tar
command to extract the files. It's like being zipped up twice.

i.e.

gunzip firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
tar -xvsf firefox-1.0.installer.tar

EDIT: I could be wrong... using the -z option with the tar command may work as already suggested earlier. I've always done it like stated here..

if you are using mandrake 10, then just right click on the thing and hit extract to...

and then go from there