Kubuntu 6.06 , Firefox. install

[Rein A. Smit]

   Hi Tod,


Thanks for info.

  I am not at the machine with Kubuntu, so will answer
whether Firefox is there or not. But I looked for it
whether it had been installed with the standard install
and did not find it. Could be well my mistake.

Let me address the Ubuntu/Kubuntu issue.

I wanted to put Ubuntu on an old Pentium 200 MHz with 1024
Mb. Again, I knew that would be marginal but did not think
it would be THAT marginal. Never got it to work in Xwindows.

So then I went to the P4 machine and as my previous experience is
with KDE, I decided for the Kubuntu version.

I am well aware that there is Office and Spread sheets and tons
of other programs. What I intended to say is that if I click on
a .pdf or .doc or mp3 or what have you, as an active link in a
WEB page, I want the browser to be able to handle that. ( such
as open Adobe reader or some .ppt reader, mp3 player etc ) without 
having to download the file then open Adobe by hand.

    http://www.konqueror.org/

Konqueror does do these functions I noticed now.

Firefox is, as is Netscape and IE with all its other drawbacks.

Will get back on whether Firefox is installed or not. If nothing
else, on a version to be used on the WEB, I should think that a browser
as Firefox, would be listed under "Internet", and it is not in Kubuntu.

Regards,

Rein







Tod Merley wrote:

> Reply below:
> 
> On 9/21/06, Rein A. Smit <rein0zn at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>>    Hi Tod,
>>
>>
>>Thanks for answering.
>>
>>Let me make first some observations.
>>
>>I guess, you are right on the Browser. I have been using Firefox
>>on all my windows machines and had it also, I believe, at one time
>>on a Debian or SuSe10.2 machine. If I remember well, it came as part
>>of the installation.
>>
>>I have here some 1600 pages from three Linux books and out of those
>>1600 pages text, there are as much as 5 pages on Firefox, nothing
>>on installation what so ever. Just wondering why that is.
>>
>>Also I thought that Firefox came out of the Linux world so to say.
>>But that appears not to be true.
>>
>>I really like to get a Linux machine that will do all the tricks
>>I want while serving, pdf's, doc's ppt's, sound formats, image formats
>>etc etc. This is what I have with here Netscape7.2 on my windows
>>machines I never have used Explorer on the WEB.
>>
>>
>>Here is the "flame" part. I would think that if Ubuntu is or were
>>such a replacement for XP or even Win98 that I am still using here,
>>these capabilities would be part of Ubuntu or would be easy to add
>>or integrate?
>>
>>
>>My computer here, dedicated for Linux, is a P4 with 256 MB at
>>the moment, will get 512 or even 1024. It works fine with
>>Konqueror.
>>
>>Kubuntu, the for free CD installed in 20 minutes or so.
>>
>>Looking forward to your reply.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Rein Smit
>>
>>
>>
>>Tod Merley wrote:
>>
>>>On 9/21/06, Rein A. Smit <rein0zn at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion
>>>>
>>>>I tried to install Firefox 1.5.0.7 with the above procedure.
>>>>
>>>>When extracting:  tar -C etc etc
>>>>
>>>>I get a display full of garbage and this goes on for over 30 minutes....
>>>>plus lots of Hard drive activity.Rein Smit
>>>>
>>>>Obvious something not working. Any idea's, please?
>>>>
>>>>Is this a viable procedure for Kubuntu?
>>>>
>>>>Has anybody been able to install firefox in Kubuntu?
>>>>
>>>>regards,
>>>>
>>>>Rein Smit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>Hi Rein A. Smit!
>>>
>>>What hardware are you trying this on?
>>>
>>>Why do you want to do that?
>>>
>>>I note that the version numbers in the tutorial are a few versions
>>>back.  I wonder if the Ubuntu current is "just as fast" as the
>>>separate build.
>>>
>>>Seems like a lot of trouble for little gain.
>>>
>>>Anyway, lets start with HW and go through the SW versions as we go.
>>>
>>>Good Hunting!
>>>
>>>Tod
>>>
>>
>>
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> 
> 
> Hi Rein Smit!
> 
> I wonder at several things:
> 
> 1. Firefox is the standard supplied browser in Ubuntu (and I think
> Kubuntu).  How did you miss that????
> 
> 2. The way you obtain SW "normally" in Ubuntu is through a package
> manager called synaptic.  In Ubuntu go to System > Administration >
> Synaptic Package Manager.  You may well want to include some more
> repositories (under Settings > Repositories) and I alaways start a
> session by hitting the "Reload" button which updates the package
> database and establishes that the internet connections are all
> working.  If you do a search on "firefox" (hit the "search" button and
> place "firefox" in the window and hit "Search" in the little window -
> be patient this one takes a bit of time) you should find the little
> box for firefox checked "green" telling you that the package is
> installed.  I think you will find Synaptic easy to use.
> 
> 3. Also standard office suite with Ubuntu is Open Office.org which
> contains a world class word processor, reasonable spreadsheet, and
> fair presentation manager.  I use Audacity to record, edit, and
> equalize/compress/and normalize sound I then compress and feed to my
> mini-sound player.  I view and edit pictures (viewer I have never
> looked up the name - the GIMP has most of the power of Photoshop (but
> a steep learning curve) Adobe is free for Linux as well (your PDFs) if
> you would rather that than any of the free PDF viewers supplied.
> 
> What I want to know from you is how in the world you can have all of
> this right in front of you and miss it???
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tod
>