Installing fierefox 1.5 in Kubuntu 6.06

Matthew Kuiken matt.kuiken at verizon.net
Sun Jun 18 21:33:25 UTC 2006


Erico wrote:
> in Konsole I run tihs comand :
>
> tar -xvzf firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz
>
> in the currente directory , in my case my Desktop Direcotry
>
> It created a directory called firefox, I run into it and tried to
> execute this comand :
>
> ./firefox
>
> When it tries to run this last comand it displays the error message

Firefox 1.5.0.4 is in the repositories.  You can install it using the 
package manager, either through apt, as the previous poster recommended, 
using Adept which is KDE's graphical package manager, or by using 
Synaptic, which is Gnome's graphical package manager.  Installing it 
through one of these methods is going to yield a lot less headaches than 
trying to use the tarball from firefox's web site.

If you look in the Adept package manager, you will find a *lot* of other 
software that is set up to properly work with Ubuntu.  There is also an 
app-installer in the menus that can be used to install software.  Most 
software in Ubuntu should be installed using these methods.  Only very 
specific applications do not have a package in the package managers.

-Matt






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