Problem with firefox installer
 

Hi
I'm at my wit's end on this one. There are a couple of related posts in these forums, but they are no help to me.

I am using Suse 9.3. I am in a shell as su

I follow the instructions to untar firefox 1.0.5. I believe it's a GUI installer.

When I try to install I get

bash: ./firefox-installer: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Any help?

TIA

Try "chmod +x firefox-installer" and then running it.

Thanks, but file permissions were the first things I checked. I'm logged in as root and, in any case, permissions are set to execute all files in the install dir.

Ta

are you using gnome or kde?

in kde you really dont have to be root unless you are installing firefox into a global location like /usr. anyway you can right click the file and choose action/extract here and it will untar it into the current directory, then go into that directory and double-click the firefox-installer icon. no need for the command line :)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jsmarshall85
in kde you really dont have to be root unless you are installing firefox into a global location like /usr. anyway you can right click the file and choose action/extract here and it will untar it into the current directory, then go into that directory and double-click the firefox-installer icon. no need for the command line :) [/QUOTE

KDE and agreed. That's how prior installers worked. But not this one. Double clicking the installer does nothing, not even an error message.

I've posted the issue on the mozilla site.

Thanks

What you need an installer for? Just get the tarball from mozilla's ftp and unpack it where you want FF to be installed.

you might be missing some gtk packages. i know some earlier versions of the firefox installer would not work without some gtk packages. not sure what they were, but you might want to install gnome and then try. i know that sounds like a lot, but it has worked for me in the past.

the firefox download is an installer. when you untar the file from mozilla it creates a folder called firefox-installer. in there is a file called firefox-installer. you run that and it installs firefox.

what version of firefox came with suse 9.3 and can you wait until suse releases their update?

The download I get from the FF is tar.gz, the contents of which are the installer.


TIA

Get it here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...x-1.0.5.tar.gz

[QUOTE]Originally posted by z-vet
Get it here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...x-1.0.5.tar.gz /QUOTE]

That worked.

Many thanks.

i stand corrected!

Be well, people. :)

Glad if you got it working, but why you didn't just install it via YAST in the first place, I'll never know.

That is, after all what YAST and the SuSE FTP repositories are for.....