paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > try opening a console (or terminal) and type 'menudrake'. > > Check out the 'drakes' at Mandriva wiki page at: > > http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/Main_Page > > trhey automate just about everything for you. in addition, go to http://www.tldp.org/guides.html take a look at "Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide" *freshly* updated this July. Also have a look here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html > >2.) Now using Mandrake 10, the first thing I did was download FireFox. > >The install directions say "unzip to desired directory". In Linux, what > >is the equivalent of the "program files" in windows? > > Forget the download. Well, the jump from 10 to 2006 is a large one (10, 10.1, 10.2, 2005, 2006) with many updates: kernel, udev, etc ... Might as well do the install over and save the bandwidth download/configuration time. Then try ET's advice about menudrak if it does it again.
> Mandriva has its own software management (urpmi) which takes care of > everything for you. > > Go to the wiki again, and check it out. Also go to one of the 'easy > urpmi' sites such as: > > http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ > > enter the distribution (I assume 2006) tick go for main/contrib/plf free > & non-free, select a mirror, and follow the instructions. At this stage > don't go for 2007, and especially not cooker - 2006 is stable. +1 this is a must 8) > After that you can either open the mandriva control centre, go to > software search for firefox to install, or you can go to a console again > and (as root - type 'su' and enter the root password) type 'urpmi > firefox' (or is it 'mozilla-firefox'?) and that's it. Are you saying you downloaded the source packages for Firefox ? if so, its a tarball and will need to be unpacked and then you'll have to learn howto install from source. Try this instead, Hawkwinds rpms at http://seerofsouls.com/index.php and specifically http://seerofsouls.com/rpm2006.html to add it as an urpmi source. mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4-2.1.20060.SoS.i586.rpm seems to be the latest except at the http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ its version 1.5.0.5. They'll probably be an update for this version from SoS soon enough though. HTH 8) -- RickS Lesson: after writing down your password, eat your sticky notes rather than leave them on the monitor 8) ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
