[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox 1.5 installation question

[Burton Strauss]

Well, compressed archive files can have either absolute or relative paths
embedded in them.  I'm guessing you expected on and got the other.

As to where applications 'belong', that's a flame fest I'm ducking...

-----Burton 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Charles Cashion
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 8:40 AM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox 1.5 installation question

I am running a Fedora Core 4 on a GQ3111 desktop.
It uses an AMD processor. I downloaded Firefox 1.5 and accepted the offer to
allow it to install itself. The file that I downloaded was
something-dot-tar-dot-gz. Past experience with tar files has demonstrated
that they will (re)generate what ever directory structure that they target.
So I felt pretty safe allowing the donwload to unpack itself.

Surprise!!!

It ended up in /tmp/firefox/firefox.

So my question to all the other FF1.5 users in NT
is: "where does  YOUR  FF1.5 reside?"

I posted (ALMOST) this same question to n.m.firefox yesterday, but left out
the bit about tar files.
And the consequence is that I did not get a straight answer.

Tnx,
Charles
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