Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:46, Paul Smith wrote: > >On 12/4/05, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The latest firefox-1.5.tar.gz doesn't contain anything that looks > >> like an installer. > >> So whats the usual procedure? And in the case of most installers, > >> how do you protect the plugins directory so that you don't have to > >> re-install the whole maryann of them from all the varied sources? > >Gene: are you intending to install Firefox in your home directory? > Nah, I usually am root, so its a global install I guess. The existing > installs are in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. I do a lot of cross-platform Mozilla QA. On Linux I put all the Mozilla.org builds in /usr/local by simply copying the contents of the tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive into my choice of location with mc. The only real "installation" involves creating whatever desktop shortcuts are desired. Most of the time I skip that and start from Konsole. "Installing" this way prevents any "installation" from creating dep conflicts with the release version(s) from the distro. -- "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." Psalm 33:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
