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firefox 1.5 filetype:deb I have not installed any of these (I usually wait until the distro packages it) but if you really are impatient you can try installing one of these debs. Make sure the one you are installing has i386 in the filename somewhere and not alpha, sparc, ppc, mips, somerandomtoasterthatdebianinstallsto, etc. Also, these sites may be of some use for installing the binary you downloaded already: http://www.ubuntux.org/firefox-1-5-locally-on-my-ubuntu-5-10 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=634422 (which appears to be down right now). Gustin Johnson wrote: > Unzip them with tar -zxvf name.of.file.tar.gz > > Cd into their directories and run the application with ./ in front, such > as ./firefox or ./thunderbird > > I keep new apps like this in ~/bin. Of course the best choice for > Ubuntu is to find a .deb package to upgrade your existing apps. > > Mike Bougie wrote: >>> I've downloaded the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 tar.gz files and now >>> I'm completely at a loss as to how to install them. >>> >>> Running kubuntu 5.10 >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> ~Mike >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDzvsQwRXgH3rKGfMRAtM2AJ0YJXBLGjDCKhCPinR5ro3ILNwlEACgryRL Cut2Si0qw+XVej7/eTDKyDA= =KNog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
