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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Firefox
  • Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:49:29 +0000 (UTC)

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.

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

Run the wrapper script 'firefox' instead of the binary 'firefox-bin'
which tells the programs where to find the libraries.
Similary for Opera if you don't install it, wrapper script opera and binary opera-bin (in subdirectory bin in this case).

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.

The export command seems to add things to the library path.


Ian.

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