Gil wrote: > Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> Gil wrote: >> >> > [Tacitus@localhost mozilla]$ gzip -dc >> > mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.7-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf >> > tar: option requires an argument -- f >> > >> >> gzip -dc mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.7-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf - >> >> Note the trailing ``-''. The -f option to tar(1) means "the next item is >> a filename". Specifying ``-'' means use stdin. >> >> In fact, tar(1) can gunzip files itself: >> >> tar -zxvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.7-installer.tar.gz > > Thanks, I didn't notice the trailing '-'. I ended up gunzipping and > then tarring the thing. > > BTW, where's ./mozilla that the README talks about, I couldn't find > it? I just clicked the mozilla-installer script icon and followed the > button trail. But it didn't work. The last screen with the install
It appears that the Linux installer is broken. See the thread "Linux install from .tar.gz doesn't quite work" > progress indicators appeared for a few seconds then just disappeared. > Before that it wanted to know what my proxy settings are, but I don't > have any such thing, so I ignored that part. Was that a mistake? I > don't have any proxy settings far as I know. > -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free -Linus Torvalds
