installing firefox 1.0.1

[David M. Carney]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:08:03 -0400, Douglas Alves <alves5 at cantv.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 04:00 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
> >  >>  >>> trying to install firefox 1.0.1 from
> >  >>  >>> http://www.mozilla.org/
> > just download it, then run it as normal user.
> > it will be installed in the folder where you have the installer.
> > you can then click on an empty space in the task bar
> > and create a shortcut to firefox.
> 
> OK Boys, this is what I did, but FireFox won't run! :(  Only the
> previous version (1.0) which I haven't uninstalled yet.
> 
> 1) I went to mozilla.org (there appeared only 2 links: one for Spain and
> another for Latin America. I chose the last).
> 2) I downloaded the file firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz
> into /home/user/My Downloads folder.
> 3) I double-clicked it and extracted the firefox-installer folder
> into /home/user.
> 4) I entered firefox-installer folder and double-clicked on
> firefox-installer shell script. I went through the installation.
> 
> Double-clicking on firefox-bin does nothing!
> 
> Help appreciated :/
> 
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Don't double-click on firefox-bin. There should be a shell script
named firefox. This is what you want to start firefox with.

David

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