installing firefox 1.0.1

[Christoph Georgi]

In case firefox is not working after David's advice, please run firefox 
from the terminal in order to get a verbose output:

user at host:/home/user/firefox-installer$ ./firefox

Have you installed firefox as user or as root?

.christoph


David M. Carney wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:08:03 -0400, Douglas Alves <alves5 at cantv.net> wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 04:00 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
>>
>>> >>  >>> trying to install firefox 1.0.1 from
>>> >>  >>> http://www.mozilla.org/
>>>just download it, then run it as normal user.
>>>it will be installed in the folder where you have the installer.
>>>you can then click on an empty space in the task bar
>>>and create a shortcut to firefox.
>>
>>OK Boys, this is what I did, but FireFox won't run! :(  Only the
>>previous version (1.0) which I haven't uninstalled yet.
>>
>>1) I went to mozilla.org (there appeared only 2 links: one for Spain and
>>another for Latin America. I chose the last).
>>2) I downloaded the file firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz
>>into /home/user/My Downloads folder.
>>3) I double-clicked it and extracted the firefox-installer folder
>>into /home/user.
>>4) I entered firefox-installer folder and double-clicked on
>>firefox-installer shell script. I went through the installation.
>>
>>Double-clicking on firefox-bin does nothing!
>>
>>Help appreciated :/
>>
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> 
> Don't double-click on firefox-bin. There should be a shell script
> named firefox. This is what you want to start firefox with.
> 
> David
> 

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