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Steven writes

> 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.

Being a mainly DOS user, that's the natural
way of doing things for me.
 
> I did the following with the Firefox 1.5 package:
> ------------------------------------------------
> (1) created a directory:  /usr/local/bin/firefox
> (2) unpacked the package in that directory
> (3) executed /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox
> ------------------------------------------------
> I don't think the name of the directory matters;
> you can probably unpack Firefox where you want.

I just unpacked it in /firefox. The trouble was that there
are some files including lib files in both that directory
and its subdirectories. When I tried to run executable
files in /firefox, they were complaining that they needed
certain libraries. Those libraries were there in /firefox
but the programs couldn't find them. That's very unDOS
behaviour. I suspect one needs to tell the programs where
the lib files are. At that point I felt I was out of my depth.


Ian.