Firefox under Fedora

[CptFarlow]

Okay, first day with Linux. Installed Fedora Core 4 on my new laptop. I downloaded firefox, then I downloaded a bunch of extensions. I closed it to restart it for them to take effect and then...(this is where I am stuck...). I cannot figure out how to open it. I have searched for the past hour to no avail. Some places were talking a out making a link to it. I understand very few commands but I learn quick.

Thanks for any help.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

You can't open the extensions or firefox? How did you download firefox? Yum?

 

[CptFarlow]

Firefox itself. I used the tar command unpack it. Then changed my directory and then installed it. I just simply need to know how to open it. I know this is a retarted question. I just need a push in the right direction.

 

[n0cmonkey]

If it's in your path (which it should be since you should be using yum to install software), just type firefox.

 

[Nothinman]

You should stick to the packages included in Fedora, unpacking tarballs randomly around your system will eventually break something.

 

[CptFarlow]

Typing it does not work. I was reading something about making a link so that typing it would start it up.

As far as your second post, I will remember that. From reading up on how to use yum, it pretty much says to stick with the repositories, and to not manually install programs. I'll get it eventually...I hope.

 

[Nothinman]

The main yum repositories are pretty small and I've heard mixed results from people using 3rd party repos. I would suggest you look at Ubuntu, once you enable the universe and multiverse repositories (they're maintained by the Ubuntu people, just not officially supported) you get access to around 15,000 packages.

 

[kamper]

I have only ever had a few things that I needed to go outside the main repositories for but the extra ones were easy to add and never gave me any trouble. I've heard random bad things about people having trouble with Ubuntu so I'd suggest you steer clear of that. Ok, I'm not being entirely serious, but yum and the fedora repositories aren't quite so bad as Nothinman likes to portray them.

I'd suggest finding that directory where you installed firefox, deleteing it altogether and then typing (as root) yum install firefox although I haven't used yum in a while so I won't guarantee the absolute correctness of that line. Try it out for a while, and if you don't like it, then consider Ubuntu or something else.

Btw, I'm kinda surprised that firefox didn't come installed by default...

 

[timswim78]

Next time, you can install firefox directly from Fedora. Just go to the add/remove programs menu, and firefox is listed under the graphical internet section.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: timswim78
Next time, you can install firefox directly from Fedora. Just go to the add/remove programs menu, and firefox is listed under the graphical internet section.

Except that that asks you to go back to the cds right? Which means that you're getting an old version of everything you install (or at least most of it). Sooner or later, you always have to use yum, if only to install a gui for it.

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: timswim78
Next time, you can install firefox directly from Fedora. Just go to the add/remove programs menu, and firefox is listed under the graphical internet section.

Except that that asks you to go back to the cds right? Which means that you're getting an old version of everything you install (or at least most of it). Sooner or later, you always have to use yum, if only to install a gui for it.

It will ask you to insert the CD/DVD unless you did a FTP install. Once installed, you can always click the update icon (it is a ring of grey circles next to the address bar) to see if you have the latest version.

 

[daniel49]

It would really suprise me if fedora core4 didn't have firefox installed by default so maybe just yum update firefox
Of course the other firefox tar install attempt may have broken something?

 

[silverpig]

locate firefox
enter that name

It's probably something like /usr/bin/firefox

 

[egkenny]

I have Fedora 3 on my laptop. Firefox was installed by default. It is located at "/usr/bin/firefox".
Also in the KDE menu I have: Internet->Firefox Web Browser.
There is also an icon on the Panel next to the "Red Hat" that activate Firefox by default.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: timswim78

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: timswim78
Next time, you can install firefox directly from Fedora. Just go to the add/remove programs menu, and firefox is listed under the graphical internet section.

Except that that asks you to go back to the cds right? Which means that you're getting an old version of everything you install (or at least most of it). Sooner or later, you always have to use yum, if only to install a gui for it.

It will ask you to insert the CD/DVD unless you did a FTP install. Once installed, you can always click the update icon (it is a ring of grey circles next to the address bar) to see if you have the latest version.

And that brings you back outside the repos. Clicking that circle will go back to mozilla.org which is not what you want. You wouldn't even be able to upgrade properly because you'd (hopefully) not be running firefox as root.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: silverpig
locate firefox
enter that name

It's probably something like /usr/bin/firefox

Only if it was installed by yum (or at least from an appropriate rpm). I'm pretty sure the installer from mozilla will only dump all of firefox in a directory somewhere in the user's home directory. Besides which, he's already tried typing 'firefox' at the prompt which would have worked if it was located in /usr/bin.

Lol at the sig

 

[CptFarlow]

Truthfully....I ended up discovering that my friend (who introduced me to linux...) burnt me Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow). I have gotton Firefox to work for now...by using nautilis and just double-clicking on the executable. Within the next few days I will get the Core 4 and start over.

The only thing that worries me is i tried using a DVD in the laptop and it wouldnt work. The next day it quit seeing the DVD/CD-ROM drive. But we'll see if Core 4 fixes that.

 

[egkenny]

You might also consider doing a custom install. That way you can select what you want to install. I started doing this because I wanted to use KDE instead of Gnome. I usually install Gnome also because sometimes it has some additional functionality I want to use.