installing Firefox and other programs

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03-12-2005
geovino

installing Firefox and other programs

I'm new to Mandrake 10.1 and I went to download Firefox and it wants to open with Ark, I can't quite figure how to get it to install . I selected all files and extracted, then I didn't know what to do. Any clues? Thanks.

Dave
03-12-2005
dylunio

Since you extracted, you will now have a directory named firefox-installer, to install go to a terminal and type

Code:

cd /path/to/firefox-installer ./firefox-installer-bin

replace /path/to/ with the real path in which firefox-installer is e.g. /home/jack/

Now a window pops up, and away you go.

For a good tutorial on installing lok here.

dylunio
03-12-2005
geovino

OK I tried that but I must have typed it in wrong.

What goes in the konsole?

the installer-firefox-bin is in /home/davek/tmp

thanks
03-12-2005
geovino

it's in the /home/davek/Downloads dir. when I try I got permission denied, then I l did a su put in my root password and I still got permission denied.

How do I get the permissions?

Thanks
03-12-2005
dylunio

try:

Code:

su [rootpass] chmod 777 /home/davek/Downloads/firefox-installer exit cd /home/davek/Downloads/firefox-installer ./firefox-installer-bin
03-12-2005
alresave

you can find firefox rpm in http://rpm.pbone.net/ and you can install it by double clicking it as root
03-12-2005
geovino

ok. I did the chmod 777 and then I got nothing... does that means it changed the permissions?
then I put in the other line and got nothing... no open window to tell me if it was installed. is there a better way to install programs? there must be a better way. thanks
03-12-2005
dylunio

Quote:

Originally Posted by geovino

ok. I did the chmod 777 and then I got nothing... does that means it changed the permissions?
then I put in the other line and got nothing... no open window to tell me if it was installed. is there a better way to install programs? there must be a better way. thanks

try what alresave said, but FF is usualy an easy install.
03-12-2005
geovino

I was able to install it through http://rpm.pbone.net/
rpm extension work most of the time, but I had some that didn't work. overall I've been able to install Firefox and Thunderbird, tried to install Mplayer, but none of the downloads worked.

also trying to get DigiKam to work I can't recognize my Olympus C720 digital camera. I'm sure there's a work around somewhere.