Trouble Installing Mozilla
Jim and Kelly Younkin
jimandkelly at younkin.com
Mon Jul 12 19:49:28 UTC 2004
Thanks. Your instructions worked very well. I did not know to type the
line 'xhost +localhost'. What does this do anyway?
Also, after clicking on a link I found that I needed to install Flash,
which I did the same way. Seems kind of cumbersome compared to
WindowsXP which automatically installs the plugin.
Lastly, is there a way to view Windows Media Files in Linux?
Thanks for all the help.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of netmask
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:19 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Trouble Installing Mozilla
> After installing Fedora Core 2 I tried to access the internet, but it
> said that Mozilla was not installed. I used the text browser ELinks
to
> download the tar.gz file from the Mozilla website. Next, I
uncompressed
> the file and tried to execute the mozilla-installer program, but Linux
> does not respond. What am I doing wrong?
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/Fedora
/RPMS/mozilla-1.6-8.i386.rpm
You could just install the RPM.. but for the sake of furthering your
familiarity with linux.. What exact tar ball did you get from
mozilla.org?
(mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz) ?
(md5sum: 0195e54f0f11ed18caae819bdff4925c)
If you are installing the browser system wide (If you are a using FC2 as
a
workstation, that's probably easiest).. you need to be root when you run
'mozilla-installer'
You also need to be in your GUI (KDE/Gnome).. and then it should show up
OK.
Try this:
wget
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/mozil
la-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz
tar xfpz mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz
cd mozilla-installer
xhost +localhost
./mozilla-installer
It should popup a gui installation screen, prompt for what you want to
install, and where to install it.
Let me know how it goes.
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