Installing Firefox and Thunderbird on Red Hat 9

[happydog500]

I've used Red Hat now for a few months. With Windows, as you learn, things get clearer, and easer the more you know. Seems with Linux, the more you learn, the more confusied, the harder and less clear everything gets. I hated Windows, but after useing Linux for a few monthes, Windows looks more stable and nice when I use it. Anyway,
I installed Firefox and Thunderbird a couple months a go. Last month, after a linux crashed a few times in one day, I decided to reinstall it. I downloaded Firefox and Thunderbird but this time I can't get them to install. I can't remember how I did it last time.
When I click on Thunderbird, there is a bunch of files. Can someone give me clear instructions on how to install these? I also installed flash but after a few days I got a flash needs to be installed at a web site. Please help. Thanks, good-dog.

[shebang]

Here's the thing: if you installed the source, which is *tar.gz you have to run:

% tar -xvzf *.tar.gz 
% ./configure 
% make
% make install

or

./configure && make && make install

but if you downloaded the rpm, try this:

% rpm -ivh *.rpm

That should do it. Or you can use yum or the GUI that RH 9 comes with: Add and Remove Packages

or sypnatic? i think that it what it is called.

Hope this helps.

Where there is %, it is just this root@localhost: #

P.S: Sorry to hear Linux didn't work for you too well.

[chessforce]

1) Go to http://www.mozilla.org/.
2) Download Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux.
3) tar -xvzf <firefox_gzipped_tarball>
4) tar -xvjf <thunderbird_bzipped_tarball>
5) cd <fiirefox_directory or thunderbird_directory>
6) ./<program_name>

For Flash, go to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/...sion=Netscape4 and follow the instructions.

[update]Sorry ind171, I did not see your post till after I submitted mine.[/update]

[countach44]

The source for firefox is a bzip2ed tarball,
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...ce-0.8.tar.bz2
the precompiled binary comes with a shell script run-mozilla-sh or something like that, just run that
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...nux-gnu.tar.gz

[happydog500]

I had windows 98 and red hat. A couple days a go I installed Windows XP. Of course it wrote a new MBR so I lost being able to boot into RH. I just installed RH again but at the end it said no changes where made to the MBR. After I figure it out I will try these suggestions.
I still haven't gave up on Linux. I learn by doing, not by someone telling me stuff. It would be nice if I had a friend locally who knew Linux.

[countach44]

try running liloconfig in red hat, see if you can boot off a disk of some sort.

[chessforce]

[quote author=countach44 link=board=2;threadid=8951;start=0#msg80783 date=1080792321]
try running liloconfig in red hat, see if you can boot off a disk of some sort.
[/quote]

I would also recommend grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hd<letter> (whatever your MBR is). Make sure grub.conf is configured properly.

[happydog500]

I want to use Grub. Don't know how. Last time I re-installed win 98 I just reinstalled RH. It didn't work this time.

[chessforce]

[quote author=happydog500 link=board=2;threadid=8951;start=0#msg80787 date=1080802030]
I want to use Grub. Don't know how. Last time I re-installed win 98 I just reinstalled RH. It didn't work this time.
[/quote]

Boot from disk or CD as countach44 said above, mount your RedHat partition(s), chroot <that_mount_point>, and then edit grub.conf. Finally, run the command: `grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hd<letter>`. If this sounds confusing, try the following tutorial: http://www.linuxanswers.net/?cmd=how...grub-multiboot.

[countach44]

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/build.html
Better build instructions...

and this:
http://phoenix.ragweed.net/build