On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:32, Jim Cheetham wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > > Having just downloaded firefox I thought I'd install it... > > Doesn't Mandrake distribute a pre-built & configured version of Firefox?
That was the first thing I looked at and couldn't find one. Mozilla is there but I wanted Firefox because I liked it. > I would be confident that it does, so perhaps you should check your > Software Update stuff, like we were discussing over the last couple of days. errr... yes boss... I hadn't done that yet... was to busy messing about with looking at all the other bits. > The advantages of that method are basically that all the hard work has > been done for you, and that dependancies are taken care of. > > > I've untared the file I downloaded but I can't find a read me... > > There is by convention a README and an INSTALL file in a source > distribution folder. It would be odd, but not impossible, for these to > be missing. > > > ./configure > > make > > make install > > Absolutely, yes, except for one little thing ... make install should be > "sudo make install" or "su -c make install" because you're not building > the thing as root, are you? :-) Not after the last leacture would I confess to doing anything as root... /me hides under bed covers with flash light so he can play with root wif out being in trouble. :) > The configure stage will halt if there are missing dependancies (like > the -dev libraries for things) and it's up to you to manually identify > and fix. Also, unless you tell configure differently, it will install > into /usr/local/bin, which is "normal" for non-package-maintained software. Thanks :) Cheers Don
