Re: firefox 2.0

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On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:48 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> One think I don't understand in all this Johnny.  See below...
> 
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:06 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: 
> >   
> >> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I just did. I am very confused. I download the firefox-2.0.tar.gz
> >>> Untared it and the readme.txt was one sentence. nothing useful.
> >>> There is no install**** anything.
> >>>       
> >> Here's the install procedure:
> >>
> >> 1. Download firefox tar.gz
> >> 2. Unpack
> >>
> >> That's it. Well, you could go further and put firefox in /usr/local (for
> >> example), and set up symlinks or something to get firefox 2.0 to run (or
> >> use the alternatives system to have both installed on your box).
> >>
> >> Hope hat helps a bit!
> >>     
> >
> > Right ... it is not an RPM, and it is pre-compiled.
> >
> > I put mine in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0 and did an ln -s
> > of /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox
> >
> > I then copied the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins
> > to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin and then removed /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins
> > and created a ln -s from /usr/lob/mozilla/pligins
> > to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins.
> >   
> Why did you move the plugin out of 2.0/plugin, then create a symbolic 
> link back there???  This is not computing for me.

because /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is where many things put plugins ... I
just put them all in there and sym linked that where firefox-2.0 wanted
it to be.

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