[mythtv-users] OT: Firefox Upgrade Problem

[Steve Daniels]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of R. G. Newbury
> Sent: 06 March 2006 18:44
> To: mythtv-users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: Firefox Upgrade Problem
> 
> I seem to be particularly dense today and the 'help' is particularly
> obfuscating and useless...
> I downloaded Firefox version 1.5.0.1 There are no installation
> instructions  in the package, just a  pointer to  go back to the
> download page for the installation instructions.
> 
> Anyone see where this is heading?
> 
> The "Installation" instructions merely say:
> "Extract the tarball in the directory where you want to install Firefox:
> 
> |"tar -xzvf firefox-1.5.0.1.tar.gz"|
> 
> "This will create a |firefox| subdirectory of that directory."
> 
> Immediately under that is a section:
> 
> 
>       "Other Platforms"
> 
> "Extract the compressed archive and run firefox."
> 
> Firstly I have no idea where this should be un-tarred...So I tried in my
> scratch space and then  in /root/.mozilla. But if I cd into the newly
> created firefox directory and run firefox..
> I get:  "Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting."
> 
> 
> Can anyone help here?
> 
> (Better yet, it now appears that I have munged the original firefox
> 1.0.7 which will now not start.
> 
> Geoff
> 

You haven't said what distro your using, but your best bet is to find a
package for it.

Have fun.

Steve