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sivart · Guest

i don't understand the instructions to install firefox, could somebody help me?

siv · Guest

come to mention it, how do you install anything? i really need help with this gzip stuff...

Flash · Posted: Fri 01 Jul 2005, 23:44 Post subject:

Which instructions are you looking at?

sivart · Guest

nevermind...figured it out. linux is odd.... XD

Lobster · Posted: Sat 02 Jul 2005, 00:26 Post subject:

Start / Setup / pupgets and dotpups
(from the start button)

this will introduce you to a variety of odd packages to install for free (which is kinda odd too)

Linux is different. Puppy is different too

You might also find useful info here:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/PuppyLinuxMainPage

Hope that helps you get started Cool

Flash · Posted: Sat 02 Jul 2005, 00:37 Post subject:

Would you mind explaining what you did, for the benefit of other beginners with the same question who may read this thread? (It's good for a beginner to try to explain it to other beginners while the learning experience is fresh.)

Thanks. Smile

sivart · Guest

all i did was unzip the files then run them XD

Lobster · Posted: Sat 02 Jul 2005, 00:57 Post subject:

Something like this?

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/FireFox

Fox7777 · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 132 Location: Lacey, WA

If you are going to install Firefox to multiple computers, you could burn the downloaded & extracted files from http://www.mozilla.org (currently Firefox 1.05) to a CD. Then after you mount the CD & su to root in rxvt, you can click on /mnt/cdrom/firefox-installer/firefox-installer to start the install, preferably to root. If you want, you could delete the Mozilla icon from your desktop, drag firefox to your desktop from rox, then right mouse click on it to set the Firefox icon.