On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: | On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:25 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: | > hello | > | > how can i install firefox 1.0.4 from http://mozilla.org ? | > the installer is seen as a text file, | > how can i run it ? | > | > a similar question: | > when mandriva does not know how to open a file in | > for example thunderbird, how do i find matching applications ? | > the dialog box does not display the mdr menu there. | > | > kind regards philippe | | philippe, open a console and cd to the file where you saved the firefox | download . Then do "tar -xvzf firefox-installer*" . That will untar to a | new folder called firefox-installer. Now do a cd again like" cd | firefox-installer-1.0.4" then type in "./firefox-installer" all without | quotes. This will start the install and you only have to click on a few | accepts. HTH
Yup. I installed (upgraded) from the tarball today. One thing you may want to do before running the installer is save your old /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory and rename the old firefox installation directory to /usr/lib/OLDfirefox or something similar. And, a good place to direct the installer is to put firefox in /usr/local/firefox. After the install, copy the contents of your old usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory into the new firefox/plugins directory. That works. If typing "firefox" from a terminal fails to open ver 1.04, or won't open firefox at all, then the /usr/bin/firefox is probably not pointing to the new version. Rename the old /usr/bin/firefox and link the firefox executable from your new installation to the /usr/bin and you will be set to go. At least, that is what I did and ver 1.04 works fine. e
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