How Do You Install Firefox? Fedora

[Fishbones]

OK I have been looking all over and searched in justlinux for some help on installing firefox.

I am in the GUI and I click in the firefix. gz. It extracts and I see a firefox installer. Click on that and it opens fileroller with some kind of .ini file and nothing.

There isn't a readme or anything to help.

On one search for help I did the answer is

'give up and reboot to windows.'

[deathadder]

Lets say you downloaded firefox to your /home.

What you need to do is load up a konsole/terminal, then use 'cd' to change to the directory:

cd /home/username/firefox-installer

Now if your going to install firefox anywhere apart from your /home then you will need to be root. To change to root you need to type:

su - <enter>
<enter root password>

You may have to change to the firefox directory again, anyway to install firefox you type:

./firefox-installer

This then loads the install program for you.

HTH

[Fishbones]

OK I did that. Now I have a lot of files. What do I do to run it?

I have a bunch of .xpi files, whatever they are.

I know I suck, I come from Windowland...

[deathadder]

Did you install it in the same directory as the installer? It doesn't really matter but the installer suggest that you dont, AFAIK.

Anyway to run firefox as your user:

<in a konsole/terminal>
/path/to/install/firefox <enter>

for example

/home/Fishbones/firefox/firefox <enter>

You can then create a shortcut so you don't have to open a terminal each time to run firefox, if you dont want to create a shortcut you can always add the firefox directory to your path, so you just have to type firefox to run it.

[Fishbones]

ok I installed to /home/jethro/firefox

ran the ./firefox-installer

it comes up with
welcome to mozilla firefox NEXT
license agreement ACCEPT
setup type STANDARD with a destination dir of
/home/jethro/firefox


Now I have this in /home/jethro/firefox

[jethro@localhost firefox]$ ls -la
total 17752
drwxrwxr-x 3 jethro jethro 4096 Oct 23 10:49 .
drwx------ 31 jethro jethro 4096 Oct 23 10:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 121974 Oct 1 14:55 adt.xpi
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 6366614 Oct 1 14:55 browser.xpi
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 41435 Oct 1 14:55 config.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 101925 Oct 1 14:55 en-US.xpi
-rw------- 1 jethro jethro 8483022 Oct 17 16:01 firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jethro jethro 1699 Oct 1 14:55 firefox-installer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jethro jethro 1192384 Oct 1 14:55 firefox-installer-bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 33669 Oct 1 14:55 header.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 79936 Oct 1 14:55 help.xpi
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 3289 Oct 1 14:55 install.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 30869 Oct 1 14:55 license.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 806822 Oct 1 14:55 talkback.xpi
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 93145 Oct 1 14:55 watermark.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 jethro jethro 724726 Oct 1 14:55 xpcom.xpi
drwxr-xr-x 2 jethro jethro 4096 Oct 23 10:49 xpi
[jethro@localhost firefox]$

typing 'firefox' doesn't to anything.

what do you think?

[mmills]

for a long time I have been playing around with linux, first redhat 7.2 unleashed from there ever so nicely built book, to Mandrake 9.2-10.0 to SUSE 8.0 to 9.0 pro, I have always used the RMP package base becuse it seems to be most like a windows exe for me, I have been battling TARs and Gzips for ever, I hope to see a good outcome......
GOOD LUCK!!!

as you can see at my website...im still dumbfounded by the file installation process.

Still a linux n00b!

[infiniphunk]

Or you can try this.
From the home page, click Firefox to download. Download it to a folder you can make in your /home/yourname/
when its there, right click and select "extract here"
you will then see a new folder; inside that, there will be a setup file. Click on it.
Then its just like a windoze installer. Avoid the option to import faves and such from firefox/nutscrape unless you want to/know how. (otherwise it will take a long time. then you're done.

[Fishbones]

I tried that from the download too. I get a folder of crap like the one I listed above.

this firefox installer looks like it doesn't install anything anywhere.

Here is a question. IF this worked. what would br the filename be of the file you launch to start firefox? just firefox?
Does it have a file extension or anything?

[Fenster]

I found the easiest way for me to get it was through apt while patching my latop up, so now it shows in /usr/bin/firefox for easy launching.

[Jata]

You could try this:
su
<enter password>
updatedb
locate firefox | less

The file you run is simply called firefox. I've got a box running Slackware which used the firefox installer and for me it is listed in the firefox-installer directory in my home directory.
The only other likely place would be /usr/bin I would think.

[Uranus]

I believe the name could be mozilla-firefox as well. Maybe http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/ is of any use? (google firefox 1.0 rpm)
Sam

[Fishbones]

locate firefox | less


there is no instance of a firefox

tons of folders and install programs containing the word firefox from me trying to install but no real firefox program.

[Jata]

You say that the installer doesn't look like it installs anything anywhere.
Does it complete without errors or does it say successful or what?

[Fishbones]

it acts like it's doing something then finishes I guess.

Now this is REDHAT FEDORA 2
I downloaded an rpm of firefox. You'll love this.

There is no action associated with firefoxblahblahblah.rpm

[Gormless]

Originally posted by Fenster
I found the easiest way for me to get it was through apt while patching my latop up, so now it shows in /usr/bin/firefox for easy launching.

Could you please explain further how you did it through apt? Step-by-step perhaps? Thx.

Cheers,

Gormless