<quote who="Adam F. Bogacki">
> I followed the Mozilla Install Instructions, creating a directory called
> 'mozilla' and moving the tar.gz file into it.
> mkdir mozilla
> mv mozilla*.tar.gz mozilla
Was this in your home directory or...?
The way I do it is this:
* Grab the normal binary tarball (not the installer).
* cd ~/bin (~ means my home directory, so really: /home/jdub/bin)
* tar -xzvf <the mozilla tarball> .
[ this leaves me with /home/jdub/bin/package, which is where the
'mozilla' binary is. ]
* I have a mozilla script in my ~/bin directory, which contains:
#!/bin/sh
exec ~/bin/package/mozilla
* And I have my ~/bin directory in my path, which is always useful anyway.
Then, when I run 'mozilla', I get *my* mozilla. :)
It sounds like you need a quick rundown on paths and such... Grab your
nearest terminal, and type 'echo $PATH'. Mine looks like this:
/home/jdub/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
When you type a command in, the shell will try to find it in each of those
directories successively. So if I typed, say, 'xvidtune', the shell would
try to find it in each directory, until it hit /usr/bin/X11, as the binary
is in there.
You'll notice that in $PATH, there's no reference to the current directory,
ie. '.'. This means that, if what you're trying to run isn't otherwise in
the path, and you're trying to invoke the command *in* the same directory,
it won't be found. You need to explicitly invoke the command with its path.
Thus, ./command (current directory, command)
Example:
lazarus: ~
$ cd ~/src/gnome/ipsc/src
lazarus: ~/src/gnome/ipsc/src
$ ls -la gipsc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jdub jdub 313k Dec 28 15:02 gipsc
lazarus: ~/src/gnome/ipsc/src
$ gipsc
bash: gipsc: command not found
lazarus: ~/src/gnome/ipsc/src
$ ./gipsc
(And up pops a reasonably good GTK+/Gnome subnet calculator.)
Extra credit for the person who explains why '.' isn't in everyone's $PATH
by default.
- Jeff
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