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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Firefox
  • Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:09:35 -0000

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.




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