Comments on: How to install firefox-2.0.tar.gz in Linux

By: andy

andy — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:39 +0000

I am not a computer person and agree things should be made easier for the masses. I right clicked on the file and chose Extract here and then found firefox runs off the desktop from its own folder. OK . it works, and to get flash download the flash file and copy it into the plugins folder in firefox..mouse copy/paste.. So it works and not a key stroke needed…and I feel less of a nerd for it…

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:53:38 +0000

Run
tar -jxvf firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2

By: Scan

Scan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:25:40 +0000

Hi all,

I got the file firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2 form the site, I make “gzip firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2″ and I got the firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2.gz,
but when I make “tar -zxvf firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2.gz” its respond with:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

maybe I do something wrong? Maybe the file is xxxxxx.tar.bz2.gz and about it I have this message?
Help me please. :-)

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:52 +0000

Long and numerous command lines is the reason why Linux will NEVER come even halfway close to Windows when it comes to popularity.

What’s so difficult about making an installer-script for Linux ?

Die, Linux. Die.
Or…well….it will kill itself, anyway.

By: gccradioscience

gccradioscience — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:50:56 +0000

Same problem here, I hope someone will come out with a easier way to install these files and more safely. I see that there are newbies here and yes I am one that just installed Ubuntu 9.04 and Linux is like a whole different world. Things are different here. 1. No nasties, no cookies, no donuts, no spyware, no snoopware. Since I used Linux vs Windows, I think Microsleuth made spyware, and adware, and cookies, and crumbs and thats when we say that’s it I give up, I am installing Linux! We all need to take the time and educate ourselves and learn this OS language. One day I will get the hang of this. I just have to get to the library and read up on it. We all need to get prepared for new things coming out that would be worse than cookies called donuts. A data piece that would be like a cookie even worse, it would spys on you through “the donut hole”. Linux indeed saved my netbook from complete damage due to the computer bug ever called the missing windows root/system32/hal.dll bug. That one was created by Microsoft. This malware keeps windows from booting up and also disables the DOS prompt feature.

By: Rain

Rain — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:42:31 +0000

Hi,

I’m very new with Linux and I got it along with my Asus EEE. Can you guys help me? I want to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 but I just save it to disk and now I don’t know where and how to open it. It just goes to my documents and I don’t know how to run it. I need a step by step procedure. Hope you guys could help me.

By: michael

michael — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:17:00 +0000

u rocked man. it works.

By: safdar azam

safdar azam — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:37:25 +0000

I just want to know. how can i install firefox in my linux machine plz give me some advise thanks.

By: Emma Pantoja

Emma Pantoja — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:51:12 +0000

I like firefox it gives me what I need

By: Ubuntu4lifer

Ubuntu4lifer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:07:08 +0000

what do you guys mean with ./configure? Could you maybe put in a example?

By: roy

roy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:55:41 +0000

how to instal tar.gz file in ubuntu 8.10 and how to instal any software in ubuntu 8.10

By: Sergio Luiz Araujo Silva

Sergio Luiz Araujo Silva — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:54:37 +0000

see: UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html

tar zxvf package.tar.gz -C /opt

By: msd

msd — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:05:27 +0000

For guys who have problems with installing Firefox 2 on older version of your Linux, note that you usually need to update your Linux (SuSe in my case) version first.

By: vivek

vivek — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:40:17 +0000

Herman,

Install libstdc++5 using your distros installation tool such as apt-get or yum

By: Herman

Herman — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:21:03 +0000

Hello All,

I followd your instructions, but it will not work i get the next message;

/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

there are two firefox and firefox-bin in the folder, both give the same result
I can not start Firefox

can you help me

sincerely herman

By: debal das

debal das — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:35:00 +0000

1)How to instal mozila fire fox in red hat linux ?
2)How i share internet commection in my red hat linux server to windows xp machine?

By: kannan

kannan — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:22:33 +0000

hello,
i am unable to install firefox 2.0.0.6 in ubuntu.i followed the above procedure,but fails.extracted the .tar.gz files but don’t know how to install….

please help

thanks

By: murali

murali — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:47:43 +0000

When i run after sudo chmod -x firefox.bin, sudo firefox.bin it says that sudo: firefox-bin: command not found

By: Jacky

Jacky — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:43:40 +0000

Download firefox from the website, then run
tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.tar.gz
cd firefox
sudo chmod -x firefox-bin
sudo firefox-bin

After you typed in this into command line, the prompt may say that you dont have right to write…

Just ignore it, now you can just simply create an icon on desktop.

At command field, type /directory/firefox/firefox
then you can double-click it to run new version firefox.

Hope this helps. Cheers!

By: Balaji

Balaji — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:49:27 +0000

hello everyone,

this forum’s been dormant for a while i guess. let me dehibernate (pardon my pun) it.

i’ve two partitions in my sata one booting xp and the other fedora 6. i wanted to access my xp data booting into linux. so as root, i did the required ‘mount’ (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/c -t ntfs-3g -r -o umask=0222) in /etc/fstab. i’ve a user account which i log into when i’m using linux normally. now my problem is i’m not able to access the xp partition thru this. with root it’s fine but i can’t be logging in as root.

early help would be appreciated.

thanx in advance,
baLaJi