[plug] Installing Firefox on Mandrake 9

[Joel Johnson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Devenish" <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>; "Joel Johnson" <jjohnson at westnet.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Installing Firefox on Mandrake 9


> In message <00dd01c481eb$d3df2210$0201a8c0 at home>
> on Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 06:45:33PM +0800, Joel Johnson wrote:
> > Trying to install Firefox 0.9.3 and keep getting to the same part in
> > the install when I get the following message and the setup closes:
>
> How are you installing it:
>  - what have you downloaded, and from where?
>  - have you previously had Firefox or Mozilla installed?
>  - do you have an existing copy of Firefox  or Mozilla still installed?
>  - are you installing as 'root' or yourself? (I am not suggesting that
>    you necessarily need to install as 'root', because you don't -- I'm
>    just asking.)
<snip>

James,
I downloaded firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz from
Mozilla. Mozilla was originally installed as part of the  Mandrake 9 install
but I removed it as didn't need require all of the extras - just wanted
Firefox as that's what I use on my Windoze boxes. Removed it by uninstalling
via GnoRPM.

And yes, was installing as root and was attempting to install it to
/usr/local/firefox as I believe /usr/local/ is where user installed software
is supposed to go (correct?). After downloading the tarball, I uncompressed
it and then ran the firefox-installer script.

Joel.