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I'm new to Ubuntu

alfa147x

alfa147x

Lifer
this is what is says:

Extract the tarball in the directory where you want to install Firefox:

Code:

tar -xzvf firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz


This will create a firefox subdirectory of that directory.


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But now do I run the file firefox which is in the directory, if I click on it it says "Do you want to run "firefox", or display its contents?

"firefox" is an executable text file"
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Then I can click on "run in Terminal", "Display", "cancel", "run"

if i click run nothing happens.

What do I do?

Thanks for all of the help in advance.
 
Yes. It should. At least up to date enough.

Ubuntu will track firefox and keep it up to date for security reasons.
 
Thanks for the help, but will this get me the recient version of FireFox?
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It might not be the exact version on thier website but why do you care? The Ubuntu package maintainers will backport any security fixes for you and everything else should work just the same.
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
Ubuntu came with Firefox pre installed last time I checked.
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I don't believe ALL of the different flavors of Ubuntu come with Firefox installed by default. I think some of the versions use other browsers by default.

 
Originally posted by: wpshooter
Originally posted by: Sunner
Ubuntu came with Firefox pre installed last time I checked.
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I don't believe ALL of the different flavors of Ubuntu come with Firefox installed by default. I think some of the versions use other browsers by default.
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Well, if you mean Kubuntu, it uses Konqueror, but then, it's called Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu, so... 😉
 
Both are slow as a dog to me. Epiphany rocks. 😉

apt-get should get you the latest of the 1.5 branch (minus a couple days due to maintainers).

If you want Deer Park/Bon Echo/etc. you're going to have to download it elsewhere.

It's beyond me why they can't take the time to make a Linux FireFox installer. The days of 'tar -xzvf' are so yesterday...
 
It's beyond me why they can't take the time to make a Linux FireFox installer. The days of 'tar -xzvf' are so yesterday...
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Because it's not their job, they're leaving it up to the package maintainers as they should.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
It's still easy as pie, though.
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But it's a slippery slope. Once you make the installer a simple script, then people want symlinks put in, and menu entries, and profile/extension migration, and so on. That does take time, and it multiplies quickly when you try to do it across various distros. Nothinman's right - leave all that to the packagers, let the Firefox people code.
 
It's still easy as pie, though.
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And completely decouples it from the rest of the system making it much more difficult to integrate, remove and update properly. Stick to packages, you'll be much happier.
 
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