Installing Flock

[SunshineTalia]

Flock is a web browser. I am primarily a Firefox user, but with my Uni's cookies etc. I can't also get onto the site.

So I'm trying to download and install Flock as an alternative.
www.flock.com

First I fried to download and open it in the archive manager, but that didn't seem to work because it opened it and I had no idea how to install it.

Then I tried to download it and just save it to the desktop. Then I put it into my home folder.

There are these instructions on the website, but I can't seem to make it out.

Could anyone help me by giving more clear and precise directions. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

This is what that link says:
How do I install Flock on Linux?

Flock is not yet packaged for any Linux distribution (with the notable exception of Ultima Linux).

Before you install Flock on Linux, please note:

* The Flock binaries are only for GNU/Linux on x86
* libstdc++5 is required

Follow these steps to install:

1. Open a terminal window and use the "cd" command to navigate to the directory that contains the flock tarball file
2. tar xzf flock-0.4.6-en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
3. cd flock
4. ./flock

Flock should now be open and ready to use.

[bryansmith]

Those instructions are a good explanation of the process. What are you having problems with?

You do not install Flock per se - you are running the Flock binary right from the decompressed folder.

[SunshineTalia]

This is what happens in my terminal:


talia@talia-laptop:/$ cd /home
talia@talia-laptop:/home$ tar xzf flock-0.4.6-en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
tar: flock-0.4.6-en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directorytar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
talia@talia-laptop:/home$

[devils casper]

where did you save .tar.gz file? navigate to that folder using 'cd' command.
execute 'ls' and it should list .tar.gz file in output.

[zba78]

Please note that your home directory is not /home but is /home/yourusername where yourusername will be your username.

So if your username is talia then your home directory will be /home/talia. In Linux the ~ character also takes you to your home directory.

So to go to your home directory you can either type

cd /home/talia

or

cd ~

[SunshineTalia]

I know that I'm being a pain, but I can get as far as 'ls', when this appears:
talia@talia-laptop:~$ ls
Desktop Examples Music Pictures
Documents flock-0.7.11.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz PicasaDocuments

I am assuming that that is what's meant to happen. I can see where the file that I downloaded is (the flock one), but I have tried heaps of different ways to open it to no avail.

talia@talia-laptop:~$ cd /flock
bash: cd: /flock: No such file or directory
talia@talia-laptop:~$ cd /flock-0.7.11.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
bash: cd: /flock-0.7.11.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz: No such file or directory
talia@talia-laptop:~$ cd /.tar
bash: cd: /.tar: No such file or directory
talia@talia-laptop:~$ cd /.tar.gz
bash: cd: /.tar.gz: No such file or directory

So I am a little frustrated. Any suggestions on what to try next?

[devils casper]

you have to extract .tar/gz package first. execute this

tar xzf flock-0.4.6-en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

this will create a folder flock. execute 'ls' to check that.

cd flock
./flock

[SunshineTalia]

Thanks so much everyone, I've got it all sorted now!

[SunshineTalia]

I've thanked you all in my blog.

I really do appreciate the help you've given me, without it I would be so stuck!