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Fri Sep 29 12:35:41 BST 2006


<br><div><div><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i am guessing the archive you downloaded is actually a compiled firefox.
</blockquote><div><br>How i know whetever the downloaded i have is compiled, or source, or binary?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
just extract it into /opt or /usr/local<br>you will need to do this as root using sudo.</blockquote><div><br>I know all the file in filesystem, is gaint permission by root user. So i need to use sudo command to do something in that. But i do not really know how to extract archieve in it.&nbsp;
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i usually make a desktop link to the binary.<br>/opt/firefox/bin/firefox<br>or /usr/local/firefox/bin/firefox.
</blockquote><div><br>Confuse in few lines above.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">or you can create a symlink in /usr/local/bin pointing to the binary like this
<br>sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/bin/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox<br><br>if you need to install plugins globally stick them in /opt/firefox/plugins</blockquote><div><br>Confuse again.<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Smithveg
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