Linux problems HELP

[Spleeze]

I just installed Slackware 10, and I have some questions...

First off, how can i install firefox so it WORKS! I did all that tar -xzvf firefoxblah blah ./firefox-installer stuff, but after i install and browse to the directory in a terminal and type firefox it says it cant find the command.. If i do ls its there though, how can it not find it. Also where should this thing be installed. I thought that my problem might have been where installed it so i sent it so /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin all kinds of places that I cant remember and none of them worked for me... I want it to be installed so all users can just bring up a terminal and type firefox and then it loads... I was also having some wierd stuff happen with the way windows were drawn and not being able to click on file view etc...

Also i have a fat32 partition that i want to be accesable from the linux install, I foolishly didnt add it to my fstab when i installed, thinking I could just mount "insert drive here" but that doesnt work... any hints on this would be great.

Sorry if im kinda hard to follow... Thanks for any replies!

 

[Firus]

Sounds like you might need to update your PATH variable to include current directory, otherwise, try typing ./firefox from the directory where it is installed.

 

[cleverhandle]

I haven't looked at a non-native Firefox package in a while, but most of those kinds of packages work similarly. Usually, you can unpack them just about anywhere - I usually put them someplace like /usr/local/firefox. Inside that directory will be some kind of starter file (probably also named firefox, so... /usr/local/firefox/firefox) that's really a script that sets up all the other environment magic for you.

So to start with, try running that file directly - type /usr/local/firefox/firefox (or cd to the directory, and do as Firus suggested). That should probably work, though maybe the filename is really mozilla-firefox or something similar. Also, there's some voodoo with some Mozilla-related packages where it won't work properly until you run the executable as root once (strictly a one-shot thing, something about registering chrome IIRC). So if the script bails out with a weird error, give it one shot as root and see if it helps.

If that works, then it's just a matter of getting things in your PATH, as Firus noted. The easiest way to deal with this is probably to make a symlink from the script to someplace in your path. So you might do something like

ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

After that, you should be good to go.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Browse to the directory the firefox executable is supposed to be and try: ./firefox

 

[Spleeze]

Thanks for your help guys. Linux is... well, different, but I'm picking it up.

 

[Vad3r]

lso i have a fat32 partition that i want to be accesable from the linux install, I foolishly didnt add it to my fstab when i installed, thinking I could just mount "insert drive here" but that doesnt work... any hints on this would be great

I asked very near the same thing about 10 days ago, I was able to get it working with the help of a few here, see the thread Here