Firefox install on FC2

[ayman sabry]

first, it is not necessary to link the firefox binary to .usr/bin just export /root/firefox_installer in your .bash_profile 
export PATH=$PATH:/root/firefox_installer
second, simplu drag and drop your firefox binary file to your desktop and choose to link here...
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick David <monkeywrencher at theoryshare.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:23:46 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Firefox install on FC2

> Use apt/yum to install firefox it will keep you upto date on new
> versions whenever you update your systems and in kde it automatically
> creates an icon. simple as apt-get install firefox
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:10, Hardy Merrill wrote:
> > It's been a while since I've worked on a RH system, so
> > please bear with me.  I downloaded the Firefox 0.93
> > installer into /root, untared/ungziped it, and ran
> > firefox_installer, which created a
> > /root/firefox_installer directory with the firefox
> > executable in it.  I'd like to be able to kick off
> > firefox by just typing "firefox" at a command prompt
> > without having to be in the /root directory.
> > 
> > So my first attempt was to go to /usr/bin and create a
> > "firefox" link to /root/firefox_installer/firefox. 
> > That works fine, but it ties up terminal session
> > (foreground) when I do it.
> > 
> > My ultimate goal is to create a Firefox icon app on
> > the XFCE desktop or taskbar - I created an app link on
> > the taskbar but get a permissions error when I try to
> > kick off firefox from there.
> > 
> > I'm sure I'm doing a lot of things wrong here - please
> > enlighten me.  How _should_ this be done?  I'm sure
> > /root is not the right place to unpack the tarball,
> > right?
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> > Hardy Merrill
> > 
> > 
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