RE: Trouble Installing Mozilla

[Jim and Kelly Younkin]

Thanks.  Your instructions worked very well.  I did not know to type the
line 'xhost +localhost'.  What does this do anyway?

Also, after clicking on a link I found that I needed to install Flash,
which I did the same way.  Seems kind of cumbersome compared to
WindowsXP which automatically installs the plugin.

Lastly, is there a way to view Windows Media Files in Linux?

Thanks for all the help.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of netmask
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:19 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Trouble Installing Mozilla
> After installing Fedora Core 2 I tried to access the internet, but it
> said that Mozilla was not installed.  I used the text browser ELinks

to
> download the tar.gz file from the Mozilla website.  Next, I

uncompressed
> the file and tried to execute the mozilla-installer program, but Linux
> does not respond.  What am I doing wrong?

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/Fedora
/RPMS/mozilla-1.6-8.i386.rpm

You could just install the RPM..  but for the sake of furthering your 
familiarity with linux..  What exact tar ball did you get from
mozilla.org?

(mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz)  ?
(md5sum: 0195e54f0f11ed18caae819bdff4925c)

If you are installing the browser system wide (If you are a using FC2 as
a 
workstation, that's probably easiest).. you need to be root when you run

'mozilla-installer'

You also need to be in your GUI (KDE/Gnome).. and then it should show up
OK. 
Try this:

wget
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/mozil
la-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz
tar xfpz mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7-installer.tar.gz
cd mozilla-installer
xhost +localhost
./mozilla-installer

It should popup a gui installation screen, prompt for what you want to 
install, and where to install it.

Let me know how it goes.