Mozilla Firebird Installation

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 11:58 AM

Hello, I am a newbie, I need to install mozilla firebird 0.7, could you please explain in detail what do I have to do to install it?

My Distro is Mandrake 9.0

SciYro · 02-09-2004, 12:09 PM

it dont matter what distro you have, all you need is the firebird sources, get them then run
./configure --whatever options you want
make
make install

be sure you check the requirements on the web site so you have all the dependancyies

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by SciYro
it dont matter what distro you have, all you need is the firebird sources, get them then run
./configure --whatever options you want
make
make install

be sure you check the requirements on the web site so you have all the dependancyies

No reason to ./configure; make; make install as they are binaries..

Just extract it and cd into new directory.. then type: ./MozillaFirebird &

And it should launch and run..

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 12:23 PM

It is extracted at home/user1/MozillaFirebird
There are two directories chrome/ and components/
what exactly do I have to do?

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 12:47 PM

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Originally posted by LinuxSeeker
It is extracted at home/user1/MozillaFirebird
There are two directories chrome/ and components/
what exactly do I have to do?

Well there should be more directories than that but simply type now in the MozillaFirebird directory like I stated before:

./MozillaFirebird &

And it will start Firebird..

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 12:56 PM

It doesn't work

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by LinuxSeeker
It doesn't work

Error messages and how did you extract it? Which download did you do?

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 01:02 PM

Also note.. Linux is case sensitive.. you will have to type it exactly like:

./MozillaFirebird &

While your in the MozillaFirebird directory in your users home directory you extracted it to..

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 01:03 PM

I opened the tar.gz file with conqueror and copied the folder that was in there to the /home directory (it has worked almost any time I tried it). Then?

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 01:05 PM

I cut and pasted it but it still doesn't work.

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by LinuxSeeker
I opened the tar.gz file with conqueror and copied the folder that was in there to the /home directory (it has worked almost any time I tried it). Then?

No, do this in a terminal:

cd ~

tar xzvf MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

cd MozillaFirebird

./MozillaFirebird &

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by LinuxSeeker
I cut and pasted it but it still doesn't work.

Word of advice.. learn to use the command and don't depend on the GUI to perform such tedious tasks..

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 01:09 PM

/bash: ./MozillaFirebird: No such file or directory
[1]+ Exit 127 ./MozillaFirebird

LinuxSeeker · 02-09-2004, 01:12 PM

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

These are the console errors.

trickykid · 02-09-2004, 01:14 PM

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Originally posted by LinuxSeeker
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

These are the console errors.

Redownload it again to your home directory the try the steps again.