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Message from Steven
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Ian wrote:
>
> The thing that stopped me in my tracks when I had 
> a look at installing that Firefox version that 
> Steven recommended was that when I extracted the 
> files, I found that there was no recognisable Linux 
> directory structure in it ( no bin or sbin or usr etc). 
> There was also no install.sh. 

The Firefox 1.5 package is like a DOS package --
you unzip it to its own directory and run it from
there.  I like this way of doing things.  Every
application sits in its own directory with all 
its bits and pieces.  To delete an application 
you simply delete its directory.

I did the following with the Firefox 1.5 package:
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(1) created a directory:  /usr/local/bin/firefox
(2) unpacked the package in that directory
(3) executed /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox
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I don't think the name of the directory matters;
you can probably unpack Firefox where you want.

Cheers,
Steven