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Topic: upgrade to Firefox 1.5 ???!!!, How can I install Firefox 1.5 on DSL?

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Posted: May 08 2006,10:22

Hi!

I have installed DSL on a Pentium I with 166 MHZ and 1,5 G harddrive and it works allright.

I would like to install Firefox 1.5, how can I do this?

Thanx a lot!

gb

kerry

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Posted: May 08 2006,22:52

Download from the firefox site
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Unpack it, you can use emelfm, just go to where you downloaded it and click on it to highlight than right click >actions> unpack

Now right click the emelfm icon and launch super user. Make your way to /usr/local/ you should see firefox, rename it to firefox.old. Now just copy or move the firefox you unpacked there.

Make sure you install the gtk2-0705.dsl with the MyDSL extension browser or the new firefox won't work.

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Posted: May 11 2006,12:16

Quote (kerry @ May 08 2006,18:52)

Hi Kerry,

Thank you very much for your reply!

I tried your suggestions but firefox doesn't work. Even more, Emelfm comes up with a strange message, telling me to install a plugin and unpack it, but I don't know which plugin and where it is.

I have also installed the gtk2-0705.dsl (which I have to admit I have no idea of what it is - sorry, absolute newbe).

I guess the MyDSL extension browser only works with DSL as user. but I have installed another user for which I would like the new firefox to work as well - which it doesn't do even for root.

Thank you very much.
gb

kerry

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Posted: May 11 2006,20:10

Use emelfm to go to firefox.tar.gz click to highlight it then in the command box at the bottom type> tar -xzvf fi (hit tab to autocomplete) and enter, that should unpack it. For your new user you might have to add him to the sudoers list. So they can use sudo like the dsl user. DSL extentions can be downloaded directly from the site which is how i do it because it's faster than just highlight and click myDSL in emelfm. The site-> ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/

mikshaw

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Posted: May 12 2006,05:49

The myDSL extensions install only from user dsl simply because they often include a menu item and icon that install into /home/dsl, and those files need to be owned by dsl. However, once the application is installed it can be used by anyone (except for themes and one or two other extensions that install into /home/dsl).

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