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Problem with installing - Ahmad Siar Mehri - 2008-09-24
Dear all,
i download firefox-3.0.2.tar.bz2 how to install this from shell.
Problem with installing - hybrid - 2008-09-24
Quote:Dear all,i download firefox-3.0.2.tar.bz2 how to install this from shell.
It is shipped as a binary, you don't need to install it.
Once extracted, simply run firefox from within the directory.
Problem with installing - Dungeon-Dave - 2008-09-24
Extract it with:
tar jxvf firefox-3.0.2.tar.bz2
That should create a directory containing the necessary files. In there should be a binary called simply "firefox". Just run that, eg:
./firefox
(presuming you're doing this as non-root).
Note: what distribution are you using? There are probably easier ways of installing than downloading the pre-compiled binary.