Newbie Mozella question
I am new to Linux and hoping you folks can help me. I am trying to install only my second program ever. I am having trouble. I am running Red Hat 9 and am trying to install Mozella Firebird. I have unpacked it but cannot find anything that looks like install instructions. I am not 100% sure what I should be looking for. I was hoping someone here could help. Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Scott |
you're either looking for a file called mozilla-installer
or a file called configure if it's the first open a terminal cd to moz installer folder su to root type ./mozilla-installer if it's the second option open a terminal cd to moz installer folder type ./configure when it's finished type make then su to root and type make install |
Or if you can find any .rpm files, chances are that will do the trick. (If there are none, refer to salparadises post for the terminal instructions)
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I ran the RH9 RPM file, now how do I run mozilla firebird?
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you can also run MozillaFirebird right out of the package with the command ./MozillaFirebird works just fine but you dont have to install it ...
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yes. i got thrown for a loop when i realized mozilla firebird didn't need to be configured and installed!
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Also - read the README or INSTALL files along with any package.
they can be realy very helpful and informative. |
MozillaFireBird package doesnt come with README nor INSTALL text. Not nice :). you have to do some copying around.
If you unziped the file to your home directory in a terminal do: 1. download gz-file from mozilla.org. 2. tar -xzvf MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz 3. su Password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 4. mv MozillaFirebird /usr/local 5. ln -s /usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird /usr/bin 6 exit now you can run Firebird by: MozillaFirebird from command prompt. I run RH8-Gnome2.2. and I just created an icon on my panel...cool phenix. Hope this helps. |
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