Slagathor Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 I hope this is in the right spot....... Ok, installed 10.1. Then decided to use FireFox browser. Downloaded the tar installer, everything went fine, but I can only launch it from a console logged in a root. Any ideas what I have done wrong???? I also have 10.1 on the kids PC and installed the same way (almost positive I did it the same way :D ) and everything works great. Anyideas????? Thanks for your time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Once you've downloaded the tar installer where you want it (i.e. home/<a_folder>) highlight the installer, right click/Actions/Extract here. This will create another folder. Look inside for a shell script called firefox. Double click it. You'll then have Firefox up and running. I create a shortcut on my desktop pointing to the shell script. You can also do the same with the Menu Editor. If that doesn't work, see if this thread has any suggestions (my posts say the same as above) here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted April 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Once you've downloaded the tar installer where you want it (i.e. home/<a_folder>) highlight the installer, right click/Actions/Extract here. This will create another folder. Look inside for a shell script called firefox. Double click it. You'll then have Firefox up and running. I create a shortcut on my desktop pointing to the shell script. You can also do the same with the Menu Editor. If that doesn't work, see if this thread has any suggestions (my posts say the same as above) here <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Welp, tryed your suggestion, and tryed what the other thread said to do, I am stumped. The only way to fire it up is to su to root and fire it up that way. And that sux....heh I will keep trying, plus I am able to look at kids PC once and see whats up on there. Cause it works great over there. (daughter finally of it...heheee) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted April 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Ok, got sick of trying.....hehe Opera works great......:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 If you are still interested in getting Firefox to work, I would try creating a new profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted April 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 I will keep trying, although it's just crazy......heh Got my vid drivers installed with minimal hair removal, But cant get Firefox to work this time.....ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 I'd recommend installing from rpm's via urpmi. Set up your media using Easy-Urpmi. Then simply urpmi mozilla-firefox. No hassles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 the only problem with that is (last i checked, or perhaps cuz of my mirrors) the firefox that got installed as a .9x version. i, using root, copy the .tar.gz file to /usr/local folder. i type tar -zxvf firefox-blahblah.tar.gz and it unzips to a folder firefox-installer. i type mv firefox-installer firefox and then cd into the firefox directory. from here i run the firefox-installer file by typing ./firefox-installer and let it go through the whole install rigamarole. Then cd to /usr/local/bin where i make the link ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox . then from command line i can just type firefox and get the application to run. from there you can add the icons or whatever else you need to add. people let me know if there are better ways of doing this from the .tar.gz file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 What you are doing is fine. If you want to use rpm's, Thac (http://rpm.nyvalls.se/) has a Firefox 1.0.2 rpm posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ebiancarelli Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 Make sure you have the access permission set properly on /usr/local/firefox. the only problem with that is (last i checked, or perhaps cuz of my mirrors) the firefox that got installed as a .9x version. i, using root, copy the .tar.gz file to /usr/local folder. i type tar -zxvf firefox-blahblah.tar.gz and it unzips to a folder firefox-installer. i type mv firefox-installer firefox and then cd into the firefox directory. from here i run the firefox-installer file by typing ./firefox-installer and let it go through the whole install rigamarole. Then cd to /usr/local/bin where i make the link ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox . then from command line i can just type firefox and get the application to run. from there you can add the icons or whatever else you need to add. people let me know if there are better ways of doing this from the .tar.gz file. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 norlug also has the newest version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted April 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 (edited) Just tryed to install from Norlug and same thing happines...... But this time I cant fire it up from console. This is just crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! EDIT: OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is working now, no clue why.........heh Edited April 7, 2005 by Slagathor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) First time I tried it on 2005LE (built from the Cooker boot.iso) it quitted with an error message, and after that it could only be fired via "kdesu mozilla-firefox" and not as a normal user. For some odd reason the hidden mozilla directory on /home/user had wrong permissions. Deleting it (as root) and restarting firefox as a normal user resolved this strange error. I did run firefox the very first time as root... Anyway, it's Cooker, such things happen! Edited April 13, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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