firefox installation problem

[turbo_h4]

When I try installing firefox browser, after ./firefox-installer, a window pops up and I click forward and I get a segmentation fault. Any ideas why? And how to fix this?

Also, when I try to install gettext which is required for glib which is required for xmms, I get a bunch of errors

[zzz@CPE00508de3e68f-CM001225dfe160 gettext-0.14.1]$ make install
Making install in autoconf-lib-link
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/zzz/gettext-0.14.1/autoconf-lib-link'
Making install in m4
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/zzz/gettext-0.14.1/autoconf-lib-link/m4'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/zzz/gettext-0.14.1/autoconf-lib-link/m4'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
mkdir -p -- . /usr/local/share/aclocal
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/aclocal': Permission denied
make[3]: *** [install-aclocalDATA] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/zzz/gettext-0.14.1/autoconf-lib-link/m4'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zzz/gettext-0.14.1/autoconf-lib-link/m4'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zzz/gettext-0.14.1/autoconf-lib-link'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Any ideas?

[jledhead]

have you previously installed firefox?

if so try to delete your firefox profile directory and (I think) your firefox .phoenix directory.

in your home directory at a shell prompt, type ls -a -l and delete any folders related to firefox or mozilla. back them up first if your not sure

[turbo_h4]

first time installing..

[sarumont]

On the gettext/glib issue, you have to be superuser to run 'make install' as this affects the system.

[stathisx]

$ means that you don't run as root!

[josh_b55]

On the gettext/glib issue, you have to be superuser to run 'make install' as this affects the system.

*Absolute n00b*

How do you know if you're the superuser. Theres only one user on here and thats me. When I tried to install firefox, it told me that since it was an exacutable program, it will not be opened. (Figured I'd post here instead of spamming witha new thread )

[sarumont]

On the gettext/glib issue, you have to be superuser to run 'make install' as this affects the system.

*Absolute n00b*

How do you know if you're the superuser. Theres only one user on here and thats me. When I tried to install firefox, it told me that since it was an exacutable program, it will not be opened. (Figured I'd post here instead of spamming witha new thread )

The command 'whoami' tells you what user you are. The command 'su -' allows you to 'switchuser' to root, who is superuser.

What distro are you running?

[valan]

For the Firefox probelm, if you can't get the binaries to work, compile from source. It's much better (faster) this way anyway.

For the gettext problem, you must be root to 'make install'.

[Quietnick]

I'm installing mozilla on mine and instead of creating a new thread i thought i would be easier to just addon to this one.

im getting some funny msg's when i try to run ./mozilla-installer

[root@localhost mozilla]# ls
mozilla-installer
[root@localhost mozilla]# ./mozilla-installer/
bash: ./mozilla-installer/: is a directory

i don t know what it means by, mozilla-installer is a directory. i thought it was the set up program. in the desktop enviorment when i double click it and try to run it manually, it tells me that i don t have permission

thanks a lot

[zba78]

If mozilla-installer is indeed the file to run then you need to type ./mozilla-installer (i.e. without the / at the end).

or you could try sh mozilla-installer