1 Question, 3 Problems

[Zirconium]

I can't try it as I get this error

su: user chmod does not exist

what should I do?

[fingal]

Ah well, you need to do it like this (more or less):

su
<enter your root password>
chmod +x firefox-installer.bin

I can't remember the name of the installer file. Then do something like:

./firefox-installer.bin

It should work.

[Zirconium]

ok heres the list of files from the tarball, what file do I make executable?

browserconfig.properties  libnspr4.so*         mozilla-xremote-client*
chrome/                   libnss3.so*          old-homepage-default.properties
components/               libnssckbi.so*       plugins/
defaults/                 libplc4.so*          readme.txt
dictionaries/             libplds4.so*         removed-files*
extensions/               libsmime3.so*        res/
firefox*                  libsoftokn3.chk      run-mozilla.sh*
firefox-bin*              libsoftokn3.so*      searchplugins/
greprefs/                 libssl3.so*          updater*
icons/                    libxpcom_compat.so*  updater.ini
libfreebl3.chk            libxpcom_core.so*    xpicleanup*
libfreebl3.so*            libxpcom.so*
libmozjs.so*              libxpistub.so*

[fingal]

Hi - Do it to firefox-bin . Actually, that should run Firefox as you would expect with:

./firefox-bin

Don't run ./firefox-bin as root. You may then need to disable IPV6 support in Firefox as I described earlier. You might also (at some stage) need to get Java & Flash Player support enabled. There are previous threads about this.

I'm not on a Linux machine at the moment so apologies for anything which might have been slightly misleading. I usually install FF in my /home/fingal/ directory and run it from there.

- fingal

[Zirconium]

when I try to run it, I get this

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and when I try to make it runnable, it just goes to the next line and does nothing, as if I did not type a thing, just pressed enter

what do I do?

also I found a rpm, and I get this this unsatisfiable error thing

libIDL2-devel

what do I do about that?

[fingal]

Try doing the chmod thing on the file called firefox. Forget your rpm for the time being... The answer to that is to learn all about urpmi and setting up repositories, but that will probably pull you off course.

[Zirconium]

nope, no go, again

[fingal]

nope, no go, again

Oh bugger! Are you getting any error messages when you try to run ./firefox ?

Also, what's the output from ls -l firefox ?

[Zirconium]

-rwxr-xr-x 1 zirconium zirconium 5247 2007-10-26 11:27 firefox*

and no, it runs perfectly, browser comes up, and I come here and see if theres a new post on how to install firefox into the system, rather than run from source

[Zirconium]

Hi, I'm decided to see if that false to true thing would work with Ubuntu, so I'm running from my Kubuntu live CD, and it worked, plus I was able to use the RPM from packages.ubuntu.com

plus, many people use the Ubuntu distros, so my question is, would it be easier to go back to Ubuntu/ Kubuntu, as it would seem I have some how received a buggy copy of Mandriva?