Has anyone cobbled together a package for Firefox 1.5, to install under
Slackware 10? The Firefox 1.5 Tarball is worse than useless to
the average Slacker, because it can't be installed system-wide.

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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:16:56 -0500, Tail Kinker wrote:

> Has anyone cobbled together a package for Firefox 1.5, to install under
> Slackware 10? The Firefox 1.5 Tarball is worse than useless to
> the average Slacker, because it can't be installed system-wide.

Slackware -current includes a package for it. It's a repackage of the
firefox binary tarball. Available from your favourite slackware mirror.

HTH,

StevenR

Tail Kinker wrote:
> Has anyone cobbled together a package for Firefox 1.5, to install under
> Slackware 10? The Firefox 1.5 Tarball is worse than useless to
> the average Slacker, because it can't be installed system-wide.
>
Um, no, not quite so... if you install Firefox (or Thunderbird) "system
wide;" in, say, /usr/local or /usr/share or
/wherever/your/little/heart/desires, (and add an entry in /etc/profile
as below) it will be available to any user logged on to the system.
Install it as root, make appropriate links in ${FIREFOX}/plugins
(particularly the one for Java), start it as root after installation and
it's there.

You do want to put an entry in /etc/profile that adds Firefox to the
PATH environment variable -- just add a line after the last PATH setting
something like

export PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/firefox"

and things will be hunky-dory. You probably ought to do this first, log
off, log back on, install the software, start it (to register things --
see the installation notes) and that's pretty much that.

Be sure to read the documentation about plugins, http://pfs.mozilla.org.

Thomas Ronayne wrote:
> You do want to put an entry in /etc/profile that adds Firefox to the
> PATH environment variable -- just add a line after the last PATH setting
> something like
>
> export PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/firefox"

or, IMHO more practical, just create a symlink:

ln -s /usr/local/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox

assuming /usr/local/bin is already in your PATH.

i usually compile firefox from source, and create a tarball as per the
install instructions. i assume that the "official" tarball is created in
the same fashion, so the symlink should work.

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