On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 06:39 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > 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 >
as always you should have used yast as a first option. as usual your distro might not have released the latest version. you now see the difficulties in not using your distro's package installer - lack of integration, not removing previous version etc etc. yast does not install random .tar.gz files. it installs rpm files supplied by suse. you could add some ftp/http sources into yast's sources, can someone more familiar with this step roger through it please?? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
