PCLinuxOS comes with Firefox 1.5.0.7 and Synaptic knows no later
version. How do I install Firefox 2.0 in PCLinuxOS? Need rpm (I
think), but Mozilla does not provide that.

BTW, I am a Linux newbie, trying to make the transition from Windows
to Linux, but that's a complex affair.

Mark

Please ignore. Problem solved. Easier than expected.

Mark

"Mark" <marcushgsjkhui6ui@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Please ignore. Problem solved. Easier than expected.
>
> Mark

Hi Mark,

I would appreciate if you please let me know what steps resolved the issue
as I have FC6 with Firefox 1.5. A few days back I got latest Firefox and
while extracting the files I got an error. Firefox wasn't installed
properly. Any help on this welcome. TIA.

Rgds Poms

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:48:13 -0800, Poma wrote:

> A few days back I got latest Firefox and
> while extracting the files I got an error.

To improve your Usenet experience you might want to read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> Any help on this welcome. TIA.

Bad download, delete and download again.

Space problem, clear more space,

Missing library, install it.

permission problem, I alwasy install as root for everyone.

But, those are all SWAGs, without the error message, who knows.

"Poma" <poma@poms.net>:

> I would appreciate if you please let me know what steps resolved the issue
> as I have FC6 with Firefox 1.5. A few days back I got latest Firefox and
> while extracting the files I got an error. Firefox wasn't installed
> properly. Any help on this welcome.

As it happened there wasn't really an issue. I uninstalled the
pre-installed Firefox 1.5.x and extracted the Firefox 2.x archive to a
directory. That was it. It was that simple. Run Firefox by clicking on
Firefox, and make a shortcut for the menu.

Mark

"Mark" <marcushgsjkhui6ui@mail.com> wrote in message
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> "Poma" <poma@poms.net>:
>
> > I would appreciate if you please let me know what steps resolved the
issue
> > as I have FC6 with Firefox 1.5. A few days back I got latest Firefox and
> > while extracting the files I got an error. Firefox wasn't installed
> > properly. Any help on this welcome.
>
> As it happened there wasn't really an issue. I uninstalled the
> pre-installed Firefox 1.5.x and extracted the Firefox 2.x archive to a
> directory. That was it. It was that simple. Run Firefox by clicking on
> Firefox, and make a shortcut for the menu.
>
> Mark

Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply.
This time around I downloaded FF2 another time. Extracted it and it created
firefox directory. I added an icon to the panel and gave the path/location
of the firefox but to no avail. It opened the preinstalled FF1.5.

I then did yum remove firefox which removed it. Then got FF2 again but it
failed to launch. Surprisingly, on RH9 and even FC5 which I had earlier, FF2
worked fine but not on FC6. Again I chose yumex to get FF but it only
installed FF1.5
I googled for the steps, unfortunately, it didnt help much.

Rgds Poms

Poma wrote:

> I then did yum remove firefox which removed it. Then got FF2 again but it
> failed to launch. Surprisingly, on RH9 and even FC5 which I had earlier, FF2
> worked fine but not on FC6. Again I chose yumex to get FF but it only
> installed FF1.5
> I googled for the steps, unfortunately, it didnt help much.

if you open xterm/konsole/terminal and execute the firefox script, what error
message do you get?


--

//Aho

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Poma wrote:
>
>> I then did yum remove firefox which removed it. Then got FF2 again but it
>> failed to launch. Surprisingly, on RH9 and even FC5 which I had
>> earlier, FF2
>> worked fine but not on FC6. Again I chose yumex to get FF but it only
>> installed FF1.5
>> I googled for the steps, unfortunately, it didnt help much.
>
> if you open xterm/konsole/terminal and execute the firefox script, what
> error message do you get?
>
>

Hi,

Sorry for the late response. I'm unable to recall the exact error but it
was something to the effect of "cannot launch firefox" .
Yesterday, I googled for installation of FF2 on FC6. Tried to follow the
steps as listed therein. Yet again, it started FF1.5.
BTW, in Windows, the ideal path of any installation is
C:\Programfiles\foldername. In Linux, whats the normal path? As, I
reinstalled FF1.5 with yumex, where does FF1.5 reside? The "which
firefox" output is /usr/bin/firefox
On FC5 and RH9 when I chose FF2, I made custom launcher for which the
path was /home/poms/firefox/firefox. But no such success in FC6.

Rgds Poms

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Poma wrote:
>
>> I then did yum remove firefox which removed it. Then got FF2 again but it
>> failed to launch. Surprisingly, on RH9 and even FC5 which I had
>> earlier, FF2
>> worked fine but not on FC6. Again I chose yumex to get FF but it only
>> installed FF1.5
>> I googled for the steps, unfortunately, it didnt help much.
>
> if you open xterm/konsole/terminal and execute the firefox script, what
> error message do you get?
>
>
Hi,

Sorry for the late response. I'm unable to recall the exact error but it
was something to the effect of "cannot launch firefox" .
Yesterday, I googled for installation of FF2 on FC6. Tried to follow the
steps as listed therein. Yet again, it started FF1.5.
BTW, in Windows, the ideal path of any installation is
C:\Programfiles\foldername. In Linux, whats the normal path? As, I
reinstalled FF1.5 with yumex, where does FF1.5 reside? The "which
firefox" output is /usr/bin/firefox
On FC5 and RH9 when I chose FF2, I made custom launcher for which the
path was /home/poms/firefox/firefox. But no such success in FC6.

Rgds Poms

Just get the bin package.....avoid rpms....if u get errors for
dependencies...try to get the rpm package for that dependencies...first
install those dependencies then try firefox...otherwise if u have bin
package just make that package in executable form by command:
chmod+X package name....then cd into that directory of bin package and
then type the command as : ./Firefix and press enter....hope it helps


Regards

Abdulrehman

JAM wrote:
> Just get the bin package.....avoid rpms....if u get errors for
> dependencies...try to get the rpm package for that dependencies...first
> install those dependencies then try firefox...otherwise if u have bin
> package just make that package in executable form by command:
> chmod+X package name....then cd into that directory of bin package and
> then type the command as : ./Firefix and press enter....hope it helps
>
>
> Regards
>
> Abdulrehman
>

Thank you all here who replied. I downloaded FF2 from firefox.com which
gives direct option and it downloads firefox-2.0.0.1.tar.gz. I do not
know if this is bin package or rpm.
Now even I dont remember what I did trying to follow the googled help
output but out of frustration I have again uninstalled FF and now doing
yumex which will yet again install FF 1.5.0.9-1.fc6
Again, I will be back to square one. Nothing seems to be working as what
apparently seem to be "simple" steps for experts are definitely daunting
tasks for newbie like me.
I would also like to know why the following steps would work in RH9, FC5
but not in FC6.
1]I download FF2 in my /home directory.
2]I do -zxvf to untar it. It creates the FF directory.
3]cd firefox
4]now here, just typing firefox would launch the browser.
But no success in FC6.

Rgds Poms

Poma wrote:

> 1]I download FF2 in my /home directory.
> 2]I do -zxvf to untar it. It creates the FF directory.
> 3]cd firefox
> 4]now here, just typing firefox would launch the browser.

If you're in the directory containing the firefox program, then just
typing 'firefox' would normally fail as the current directory isn't on your
search path by default. You normally have to type './firefox'.

I haven't followed this thread from the start, but it seems to me that
you're trying to run FF2 from /home/you/firefox while you've still got
FF1.5 installed in /usr/bin/firefox. If you were to look
in /usr/bin/firefox, you'd see that the 'firefox' program is actually a
symbolic link to the real program in another directory. You need to replace
that symbolic link with a link to FF2.

You can do this by opening a console and entering 'su' and then root's
password when asked. Then enter these 2 lines:

rm /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /home/you/firefox/firefox /usr/binfirefox

In that last line, substitute your user name for the 'you'. You should still
find that 'which firefox' replies with '/usr/bin/firefox' but you should
find that typing 'firefox' in a console (or './firefox' from within the
firefox directory itself) should run FF2. And any icons you've got for
Firefox should also run FF2.

I would suggest that you uninstall FF1.5 before you do the above so that you
don't run into any problems later on when you try to upgrade your system
and your link gets overwritten. I don't know PCLinuxOS, but you should be
able to remove FF1.5 with 'rpm -e firefox' in a console.

--
Garry Knight
garryknight@gmx.net

Garry Knight wrote:
> Poma wrote:
>
>> 1]I download FF2 in my /home directory.
>> 2]I do -zxvf to untar it. It creates the FF directory.
>> 3]cd firefox
>> 4]now here, just typing firefox would launch the browser.
>
> If you're in the directory containing the firefox program, then just
> typing 'firefox' would normally fail as the current directory isn't on your
> search path by default. You normally have to type './firefox'.
>
> I haven't followed this thread from the start, but it seems to me that
> you're trying to run FF2 from /home/you/firefox while you've still got
> FF1.5 installed in /usr/bin/firefox. If you were to look
> in /usr/bin/firefox, you'd see that the 'firefox' program is actually a
> symbolic link to the real program in another directory. You need to replace
> that symbolic link with a link to FF2.
>
> You can do this by opening a console and entering 'su' and then root's
> password when asked. Then enter these 2 lines:
>
> rm /usr/bin/firefox
> ln -s /home/you/firefox/firefox /usr/binfirefox
>
> In that last line, substitute your user name for the 'you'. You should still
> find that 'which firefox' replies with '/usr/bin/firefox' but you should
> find that typing 'firefox' in a console (or './firefox' from within the
> firefox directory itself) should run FF2. And any icons you've got for
> Firefox should also run FF2.
>
> I would suggest that you uninstall FF1.5 before you do the above so that you
> don't run into any problems later on when you try to upgrade your system
> and your link gets overwritten. I don't know PCLinuxOS, but you should be
> able to remove FF1.5 with 'rpm -e firefox' in a console.
>

Hi Garry,

Thanks a ton for ur help but still no success as the error pasted below
will throw some light. BTW, I'm using FC6
================================
[pom@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost sun]# rpm -e firefox
[root@localhost sun]# rm /usr/bin/firefox
rm: cannot lstat `/usr/bin/firefox': No such file or directory
[root@localhost pom]# ln -s /home/pom/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
[root@localhost pom]# cd firefox
[root@localhost firefox]# firefox
/home/pom/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost firefox]# ./firefox
../firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
================================================== =====
Now I'm without FF1.5 too. Trying Konqueror thru GUI which for some
strange reaons doesnt come up :-(

Tia,
Rgds Poms

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:04:56 +0530, Poma wrote:
> /home/pom/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Here is your current problem, install the libstdc++5 rpm.

Poma wrote:
> Garry Knight wrote:
>> Poma wrote:
>>
>>> 1]I download FF2 in my /home directory.
>>> 2]I do -zxvf to untar it. It creates the FF directory.
>>> 3]cd firefox
>>> 4]now here, just typing firefox would launch the browser.
>>
>> If you're in the directory containing the firefox program, then just
>> typing 'firefox' would normally fail as the current directory isn't on
>> your
>> search path by default. You normally have to type './firefox'.
>>
>> I haven't followed this thread from the start, but it seems to me that
>> you're trying to run FF2 from /home/you/firefox while you've still got
>> FF1.5 installed in /usr/bin/firefox. If you were to look
>> in /usr/bin/firefox, you'd see that the 'firefox' program is actually a
>> symbolic link to the real program in another directory. You need to
>> replace
>> that symbolic link with a link to FF2.
>>
>> You can do this by opening a console and entering 'su' and then root's
>> password when asked. Then enter these 2 lines:
>>
>> rm /usr/bin/firefox
>> ln -s /home/you/firefox/firefox /usr/binfirefox
>>
>> In that last line, substitute your user name for the 'you'. You should
>> still
>> find that 'which firefox' replies with '/usr/bin/firefox' but you should
>> find that typing 'firefox' in a console (or './firefox' from within the
>> firefox directory itself) should run FF2. And any icons you've got for
>> Firefox should also run FF2.
>>
>> I would suggest that you uninstall FF1.5 before you do the above so
>> that you
>> don't run into any problems later on when you try to upgrade your system
>> and your link gets overwritten. I don't know PCLinuxOS, but you should be
>> able to remove FF1.5 with 'rpm -e firefox' in a console.
>>
>
> Hi Garry,
>
> Thanks a ton for ur help but still no success as the error pasted below
> will throw some light. BTW, I'm using FC6
> ================================
> [pom@localhost ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root@localhost sun]# rpm -e firefox
> [root@localhost sun]# rm /usr/bin/firefox
> rm: cannot lstat `/usr/bin/firefox': No such file or directory
> [root@localhost pom]# ln -s /home/pom/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
> [root@localhost pom]# cd firefox
> [root@localhost firefox]# firefox
> /home/pom/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> [root@localhost firefox]# ./firefox
> ../firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ================================================== =====
> Now I'm without FF1.5 too. Trying Konqueror thru GUI which for some
> strange reaons doesnt come up :-(
>
> Tia,
> Rgds Poms

Hi Garry,

Just to inform you and others that finally I got FF2 up and running.
When I got the libstdc++.so.5 error, I merely did yum install
libstdc++.so.5 in console and that got FF2 running.
Now whats really missing are my bookmarks, not much though. Btw, is
there anyway to get the News tab in FF2 which will list current news?
Garry and all others here, I sincerely appreciate all your help.
Thanks a ton!!
Rgds Poms