Firefox One Point Oh!

[Christoph Georgi]

/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software 
packages. (Debian Policy Manual: 
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-3.8.html )
I think, "add-on application software" excludes debian/ubuntu package 
sotware as I never had a package installing something into /opt (well, I 
have not been using Debian stuff for long ;)...

But as I said, one can install firefox and thunderbird where ever he 
wishes *g*

christoph

volvoguy wrote:
> Hi Christoph! 
> 
> I'm with you - I didn't wait for Hoary either, but I also didn't want
> to be the technical support contact for people that might break things
> by using an unsupported browser. :-)
> 
> I do something similar to you, but I keep all my personal and
> unsupported apps in a "bin" directory in my home account:
> 
> /home/aaron/bin  (then)
> /home/aaron/bin/firefox
> 
> And simply add a different launcher for that version. It's not a clean
> install either, but it helps me remember which one I need to blow away
> if it starts misbehaving. :-)
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:25:51 +1300, Christoph Georgi
> <christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> 
>>Why wait for Hoary? Just download it and install it as follows (although
>>it's a not very "clean" installation):
>>
>>Extract the firefox....tar.gz to /opt
>>cd /opt/firefox-installer
>>./firefox-installer
>>Choose /opt/firefox-installer as installation directory
>>Customize if you wish
>>Hit install.
>>
>>That done change the launcher properties of Firefox to run
>>/opt/firefox-installer/firefox and off we go!
>>
>>Thanks to Travis Newman as this is basically his "howto"! (but most
>>people don't seem to bother about looking back in the mailinglist ;)
>>Works fine for 1.0, too (yet).
>>
>>christoph
>>
>>
>>
>>volvoguy wrote:
>>
>>>It's out, and hopefully in plenty of time to make it into Hoary! :-)
>>>
>>>http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
> 
>