On Thursday 22 March 2007, Cameron Simpson wrote: >On 22Mar2007 22:24, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >| There is a readme.txt that point one to a web page in the download of >| ff-2.0.0.3-tar.gz from the ff main site. >| >| Unforch, I cannot find an install script in the archive, nor any >| install/update instructions on the web page. >| >| So how does one go about installing it on an FC6 box? > >I went (slightly paraphrased): > > mkdir /tmp/ff > cd /tmp/ff > tar xvzf the-tarfile.tgz > mv firefox /opt/firefox-2.0.0.3-enGB > ln -s /opt/firefox-2.0.0.3-enGB/firefox /usr/local/bin/. > Thanks you. Just the last 2 lines and editing the icon have at least made the bookarks available. >Works fine. I also went into /opt/firefox-2.0.0.3-enGB/firefox/plugins >and duplicated the flash and java plugins links from our older firefox >install. At one point I was nuking that, and ln -s'ing it to a separate plugins directory, which seemed to better protect the contents from the old mozilla installer which insisted on nuking the whole thing, making you spend the next 3 days cruizing the web looking to replace them yet again. I don't recall if thats the situation now, so I suppose a visit to cnn.com et all is in order. Thanks again, this worked well enough to get me going again, and it hasn't crashed (yet, the 2.0.0.0 version sure did, quickly) >-- >Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 >http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > >Team work is essential. It gives the enemy other people to shoot at. > - Murphy's Laws of Combat -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Unoptimized hard drive
