At 12:00 11/12/05 +0000, you wrote:
>I am using Mandriva 2005 LE Linux and I cannot get it to install at all.
>I do a
> tar -zxvf firefox-1.5.tar.gz
>and it decompresses an already compiled/installed version ready to run or so
>it seems into a ./firefox folder.
>There is no option to install to another directory.
>Apart from all this it doesn't even run propperly. It aborts with no messages
>whatsoever immediatly.
>>Any idea how I can get it to go into the usual /usr/local/bin/firefox/ folder
>so every account on the machine can use it?
Seán,
i would have thought that you need to specify the directory you want it to
untar into:
tar -zxvf firefox-1.5.tar.gz /usr/local/bin/
check the man page for tar?
keith
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