Is there a different way.......

[inspiron8200guy]

I just installed Firefox on my Linux box. To start it, I have to enter a few console commands. Is there a way I can make an executable file so I don't have to type them out all the time? Here is what I use to start Firefox:

[root@localhost] cd /root/firefox-installer
[root@ localhost firefox] ./firefox


Thanks for any help

 

[stars]

You can edit the .bashrc and add something like

alias fire='/path/to/firefox'

Then in a terminal you simply type fire to run firefox. Also you probably have other options depending on the window manager and/or desktop enviroment that you use.

 

[inspiron8200guy]

I am running Red Hat 9 and I admit I am a total Linix noob. Could you explain to me exactly how one would do this? Thank you very much.

 

[stars]

Sure, by using a text editor such as pico, nano, vim or whatever comes with red hat open the .bashrc file which is located in your home directory. Add a line to the file similar to:

alias fire='/path/to/firefox'

The word "fire" can be replaced with whatever you would like to use to run firefox. The /path/to/firefox section is the path to the actual location of firefox. After adding this line and saving the file you can issue a second command that will allow the changes to take effect. This command would be issued from your home directory:

source ~/.bashrc

Also note the reference to "home directory" means the actual user directory such as /home/username

Hope this helps.

 

[bersl2]

Usually, prepending or appending to $PATH is preferable to making an alias. So, in ~/.bashrc, add the following line (assuming /path/to is the path to the firefox executable*):

PATH="/path/to:$PATH"

* To be technically correct, firefox is merely an executable script; ${FF_ROOT}/lib/firefox-bin is the true executable, but you're supposed to call it through the previously mentioned shell script.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Why are you running Firefox as root?

Install it to your non-priviliged user account and create a symlink (to the firefox executable) in the home directory.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: inspiron8200guy
I am running Red Hat 9 and I admit I am a total Linix noob. Could you explain to me exactly how one would do this? Thank you very much.

Unless you have to stop running Red hat 9 and upgrade some something new. Redhat 9 is completely obsolete and should be avoided, support for that OS has been dropped for a long time now.

That is unless you have to run Redhat 9 for some odd reason.

Take a look at Ubuntu, Fedora Core 4, or Suse Linux 10 and there are a few others. They'll offer big improvements over RH 9. If you want to stick to something very Redhat-like look at Fedora, which is the no-cost OS that Redhat engineers work on and is basicly the replacement of the 'Redhat' releases. Fedora Core 4 basicly is the same as saying "Redhat 13" if Redhat kept the same versioning numbers and names.

Those will have Firefox installed by default and some decent package management also.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Don't run firefox as root.
It looks like firefox was installed in the wrong spot, you should think about fixing that...