emmanuel_uk Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 (edited) My problem with this one is that konqueror is a kde application and I am running with GNOME. This, therefore, is a complete mystery to me Well you may just want to try KDE (Do you know how to do that?) waht mandriva version have you got? is this 2006 by any chance? The file association I believe is specific to KDE (but maybe not), so if you double click on an html file in nautilus say, this will launch whatever but probably not newest version of firefox even if you had done the konqueror step Presumably konqueror will run under gnone (never tried) if all the library are installed just start a terminal and type konqueror see if this works, at least you will discover konqueror not using gnome, so little idea more than that as I said before you can install opera as a spare backup browser Edited September 29, 2006 by emmanuel_uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Nautilus is a browser within Gnome, maybe this is better than using Gnome apps. Alternatively, download the latest Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com and then extract this to maybe /usr/local/mozilla/firefox (this is where I have mine), and then to run it, create a shortcut pointing to /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/firefox Note the two levels of firefox. The first is the directory you extracted to, and the second is the program to run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Ian: Unless I am mistaken, jgw has already succeeded in installing the most recent firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 So he has :P I had to re-read everything to make sure, it was all getting confusing :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgw Posted September 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Thanks for all the replies! I want to run GNOME as I want to do some Plain C (not C++) programming and that seems to be the way to go to do that. I have not installed firefox yet as I was shooting, exactly, for the directories suggested but that means I must be logged in as root and I do not know how to do that outside of the terminal. If I call the unzipper from a terminal (logged in to root) would that work? I did install forefox sucessfully one time. The problem was that I did not like where I had stuck it. I suspect that if I install it in the right place that the system is going to have less problems recognizing that its there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Yes, you can su at command prompt, and then run ark or whatever to extract the files. Alternatively, you can choose run, and then choose the advanced option to run as a different user, and then choose root and enter the appropriate password as well as the app to run. It doesn't matter where you extract firefox in all honesty, the system won't mind. It's all personal preference anyhow. And beside, you have to create your own desktop icon or menu entries for the extracted program anyhow - they won't appear automatically unless you install the Mandriva packaged version using Install Software, or from the command line using urpmi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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