[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox 1.5 installation question

[Robert Pearson]

On 12/16/05, Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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...

On 12/16/05, Robert Pearson <e2eiod at gmail.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> On 12/16/05, Charles Cashion <papacharles at dunjas.com> wrote:
> > So my question to all the other FF1.5 users in NT
> > is: "where does  YOUR  FF1.5 reside?"
>
> Wherever I put the "something-dot-tar-dot-gz" file and unpack it.
> On Linux I usually create "/opt/Firefox-'some version number'"
> and put it there. This is documented somewhere. I didn't figure
> this out for myself, I read it.

My statement above is misleading. Not trying to start a "flame" war.
What is documented is to place the "something-dot-tar-dot-gz" file
in the directory you want to install in and unpack it.
I use "/opt/Firefox-'some version number'" because that is
where SuSE puts it now that it is an included package.
Before I used "/usr/local/lib". Both are personal choices.

Fedora Core 4 includes Firefox but not "1.5".
I can't remember if Fedora Core 3 included Firefox or not.
Where Fedora Core 4 installs "1.0.7?" I don't remember for sure.

It doesn't matter. The "something-dot-tar-dot-gz" file uses
relative paths so it should go into any directory you have
permission to write. I cannot explain how it would install into---
"> It ended up in /tmp/firefox/firefox.".

We used to put code like that into applications so they would
not fail because they could not write to the specified directory
due to permission problems. They would write to "/tmp".
I ran a lot of "find" commands looking for files that people tried
to write to the wrong project directory.
Sometimes they couldn't be found because they were written to
"/tmp" and the user would reboot the machine out of frustration.
Then they were history.

Robert...