Hi Tony. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Tony Foster <tfLinuxMail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:23 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: >> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Tony Foster <tfLinuxMail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > When I unpacked the download none of the shell files were executable. >> > I assume that I need to add executable permission to some of the >> > executable files to run from home directory? >> > >> >> There should be an executable file called firefox/firefox. Just use that. >> > I did find several shell scripts in the Firefox directory. > NONE were executable. Are you sure you have the tarball from a reliable source? When I open a tarball from this[1] Mozilla mirror, I find shell scripts and shared libraries with proper file permissions inside. firefox-4.0.1.tar.bz2: > -rwxr-xr-x 1054392 firefox/libnss3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 10597 firefox/run-mozilla.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 49464 firefox/plugin-container > -rwxr-xr-x 58008 firefox/crashreporter > -rwxr-xr-x 29863832 firefox/libxul.so > -rwxr-xr-x 111392 firefox/libnssutil3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 57248 firefox/firefox-bin > -rwxr-xr-x 421536 firefox/libfreebl3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 156744 firefox/libsmime3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 608992 firefox/libmozsqlite3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 153696 firefox/libnssdbm3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 238320 firefox/libnspr4.so > -rwxr-xr-x 206608 firefox/libssl3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 12088 firefox/libplds4.so > -rwxr-xr-x 513168 firefox/libnssckbi.so > -rwxr-xr-x 3916 firefox/firefox > -rwxr-xr-x 73104 firefox/updater > -rwxr-xr-x 16432 firefox/libxpcom.so > -rwxr-xr-x 182648 firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so > -rwxr-xr-x 29936 firefox/components/libdbusservice.so > -rwxr-xr-x 41840 firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so > -rwxr-xr-x 47104 firefox/components/libmozgnome.so > -rwxr-xr-x 15776 firefox/mozilla-xremote-client > -rwxr-xr-x 242208 firefox/libsoftokn3.so > -rwxr-xr-x 16904 firefox/libplc4.so > -rwxr-xr-x 7584 firefox/libmozalloc.so > > -- > Tony Foster Hope this helps Footnotes: [1] http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/ -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
