Sherpa Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 i downloaded the package from the website that had the installer included, i did the installation, but i do not know how to start the browser, there is no shortcut in the kmenu and when i type firefox in the terminal, it says command not found... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 I never used firefox I just know that it's a browser. If you have your Urpmi set up you can try this, Urpmi firefox Thats what I had to do when I wanted to install Mozilla ( I of course subsituted firefox for Mozilla ). When I did that for Mozilla it installed a shortcut. Heres the website were you can get your Urpmi set up. Friendly FAQ Again I'm not sure if firefox is on urpmi but install urpmi anyways, it will save you fustrations of installing packages, mostly everything that you can download is in urpmi, all you need to do is just type in Urpmi <name of the file > and if there is a package for it will install it. I'm very amazed by the capabilities of Urpmi. If other guys can please make corrections to this if any of this information is wrong please notify me, once again I'm triying to help but not with the wrong information. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 urpmi mozilla-firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Probably the best thing to do is open a terminal and type "which firefox" to find the program itself. From there use menudrake or the text editor of your choice to add it to the KDE menu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 ok, well it could not find it so i did urpmi mozilla firefox, and got an old, .88 version, but i want .91 is there an update button? i downloaded the new firefox, but it is a tar gz file, when i run the installer program it wants to install it in the dir that i unpacked it in, instead of where ever programs are supposed to go in linux. should i change the dir to /usr/bin? or something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 (edited) you can always install it in your user directory, it'll still work. Edited July 2, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 ok, well it could not find it so i did urpmi mozilla firefox, and got an old, .88 version, but i want .91 is there an update button? i downloaded the new firefox, but it is a tar gz file, when i run the installer program it wants to install it in the dir that i unpacked it in, instead of where ever programs are supposed to go in linux. should i change the dir to /usr/bin? or something like that? rpms have to be made so you won't get the latest and greatest with urpmi. Installing to the unpacked dir is what it is supposed to do, especially if you're a user and not root, as only root can install global apps (/usr/bin ....etc....) Let it. If, for example you end up with the install files in /home/Sherpa/firefox opening a terminal and doing; cd /home/Sherpa/firefox ./firefox should start it. For these types of apps check if your .bash_profile says PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin If it does, in your home dir, do (provided your username is Sherpa) mkdir -p bin ln -s /home/Sherpa/firefox/firefox /home/Sherpa/bin/firefox or the short version ln -s firefox/firefox bin/firefox then when you run which firefox /home/Sherpa/firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 I thought that when you wanted to update something you will just download it from the site in the rpm format, and type in rpm -Uvh <name_of_file> Of course substituting the ( <name_of_file> ) for the actual name and without the "< >" This is what I did to update my GAIM. But bvc is most likely right since he is more experienced. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 (edited) the urpmi --update command won't work here because firefox is more a contrib thing and not default. BUT urpmi on it's own will install/update the newest pkg. Edited July 2, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Luis101 Posted on Jul 2 2004, 10:42 PM I thought that when you wanted to update something you will just download it from the site in the rpm format, and type in CODE rpm -Uvh <name_of_file> Of course substituting the ( <name_of_file> ) for the actual name and without the "< >" This is what I did to update my GAIM. But bvc is most likely right since he is more experienced. -Luis Sorry about that I just found out that in order to that the file must me an rpm. Which I have just taken a look at the mozilla website and the downloads come in the tar.gz format. I guess bvc is probably the way you want to go, but if you can get a hold of the update that is an rpm, then use the post I have provided on top. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 ok thanks bvc, i will do that right now thanks luis101 also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 now i have it installed, and everything is working except java.... i went to google to find a test java thing: Test Java when i try to test it, it tells me that i need to download an extention, so i do, and it installs fine, and even has a popup window that says installed sucessfully, however, when i close all of the open windows for the browser, and restart it, and try to test the java, it gives me that popup again, could this be a file permissions, problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 found an faq on it, and it gave a command that made a link into the plugins dir, but when i went to brows through the plugins dir, i saw a java2 folder that was already in there before the link was made... wonder why it did not work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 cd /to/firefox/plugins ls -l [root@localhost plugins]# ls -l total 2080 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 Jun 27 22:27 flashplayer.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 Jun 27 22:27 libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 Jun 27 22:15 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19520 Jun 12 15:26 libnullplugin.so what does yours say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 [david@localhost plugins]$ ls -l total 2216 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 Jul 2 18:45 flashplayer.xpt* drwxr-xr-x 6 david david 4096 Jul 2 18:54 java2/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 Jul 2 18:45 libflashplayer.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 67 Jul 2 19:05 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so* -rwxrwxrwx 1 david david 19096 Jun 27 22:10 libnullplugin.so* -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 129611 May 21 13:18 nppdf.so [david@localhost plugins]$ got that working now, just the darn adobe acrobat installation, i have done everything that it says to do in the stupid Plugin FAQ link for firefox, but whenever i click on a .pdf download on google, a white page pops up and it says done in the status bar, nothin happens............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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