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> > 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

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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