I managed to get firefox and thunderbird installed and working at home
but am wondering if I've gone about it the "best" way, and am about to
repeat the exercise at work today if time allows. I downloaded the
tar.gz files, created a folder for each in /usr/bin (seemed to be where
plenty of other things get installed), extracted the files there and
found the installer file that starts the installation wizard. Once that
ran, I had to manually create a desktop icon linked to a file (found by
trial and error) and find a suitable icon. I've not bothered to put an
entry on the start menu (interesting that neither a menu entry or
desktop icon are created for me?).
How could I do this better? I don't see how to use Yast to accomplish
an install for a downloaded file. And is it possible to use Yast for
the download too - all I can do at the moment is install packages from
the install CDs. If I add a local directory under Yast's software
source media, being a location I know contains some tar.gz files, those
packages aren't found.
Cheers,
Roger
