On January 1, 2005 02:41 pm, David Brewerton wrote: > I just installed my first Linux OS.
Congrats :) > I'm therefore a > newbie at Linux. We've all been there. > I used Linspire v4.5.603 and made it > a dual boot system with Windows XP Pro. While it came > with most everything required to run, I'd like to > install a few other programs like Firefox, > Thunderbird, etc. The browser that came with it is > from Mozilla already, but I want Firefox as well. When > I went to mozilla.org and clicked on the download > link, it downloaded instantly and very quickly. Now, > how do I install the programs? That's a pretty broad question. With Linspire their preferred way is click 'n' run, however... If you downloaded firefox you should have a file called firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz. In a terminal, go to the directory where that file is and extract that by typing: tar -xvzf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz it will create a new directory called firefox-installer. Type cd firefox-installer ./firefox-installer A graphical wizard will open and away you go. Good luck and again, congrats on trying Linux [though I think you'll like SUSE better than Linspire once you're comfortable with things]. Feel free to ask if any of this is unclear. Sometimes it's hard to guage how "newbie" someone is. :) > > Eventually I want to do a second box with SUSE Linux > v9.0 or 9.1, both of which I have already. That'll > have to wait until I finish acquiring the parts to > build another extra box. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
