[mythtv-users] OT: Firefox Upgrade Problem
Steve Daniels
steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 6 19:05:32 UTC 2006
> -----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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