There should be an installer in the package you downloaded. You'll want to launch that instead of the firefox binary. It will probably be something like: ./install-firefox
After that, just follow the instructions. You may want to be root if you want to install it system-wide. Jesse On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:40 -0700, Mike Bougie wrote: > hmmmm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/programs/firefox$ ./firefox > ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > then when i try to apt-get install libstdc, i get this > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/programs/thunderbird$ sudo apt-get install libstdc > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package libstdc > > > On 1/18/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFDzvdHwRXgH3rKGfMRApu/AJ9z/5lGae4fgZFD1H0ouNt5eG+x0ACdHZQi > > ZuHuNgWHcNzUBMK2OPc0WgQ= > > =6mQ7 > > -----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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
