installing firefox

[valoq]

I don't want to use Firefox 3.0 and would much rather use Firefox 2.0.0.16 but am unsure how to install tar.gz files in Linux.

What do I do?

[dobby9]

If you only like to use it for one person
Down load firefox in you,re home/dir
Open a terminal use the command :
Tar xzvf firefox....tar.gz
It will create a folder called firefox
Open it out of my memory there is subfolder called bin
In it is somewhere a shell script
Link it to desktop click on it and it works

[valoq]

I'm getting (Cannot open: No such file or directory) when typing "tar xzvf firefox....tar.gz" in the konsole.

Now what?

[kastorff]

Thread moved to Applications
opensuse.org.help.applications

[ken_yap]

See another thread on this board on how to install FF2 from a repository.

[Unseen-Ghost]

Rather than post the entire tutorial in this post, refer to this post.

If you still have any questions, feel free to ask.

[valoq]

Thanks for moving the thread. I had a feeling I was posting in the wrong area

I'll check out the url you linked.

[Unseen-Ghost]

I'm sorry, I read your question wrong.

I thought you wanted to install Firefox 3.

To install tar.gz files, check out this link.

Sorry again for that misunderstanding.

Hope that one works better for you.

[valoq]

Originally Posted by Unseen-Ghost

I'm sorry, I read your question wrong.

I thought you wanted to install Firefox 3.

To install tar.gz files, check out this link.

Sorry again for that misunderstanding.



Hope that one works better for you.

No problem. Okay, back to square one again:

as root


Code:
tar -zxvf nameof.tar.gz

tar -zxvf firefox.tar.gz (you are supposed to type in root before this) How do you log in as root and howcome I'm getting (Invalid command) when typing tar -zxvf firefox.tar.gz?

Thanks,

[ken_yap]

Here, try this thread:

Going back to Firefox 2 - openSUSE Forums