[mythtv-users] OT: Firefox Upgrade Problem

[R. G. Newbury]

Steve Daniels wrote:
>> -----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
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Fedora Core 4  2.6.14_1656

According to the mozilla site, the downloaded tar should be 
sufficient....but nothing I can do can get it to run.

Geoff


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