Installing Firefox (automatically)

[walter.serner]

I downloaded the file "firefox-1.0.3.installer.tar" and tried to install it on my Kubuntu machine.


Same for the auto-install version of Acrobat Reader.

None of them installs itself. What do I have to consider?

Thanks,
Walter

[defkewl]

why don't you use:
$ apt-get install mozilla-firefox
instead?

[walter.serner]

I can´t connect this machine to the internet and therefore have to depend on
CDs.

Walter

[nemin]

I can´t connect this machine to the internet and therefore have to depend on
CDs.
Then you should better use *.deb file than *.tar, and install them with sudo dpkg -i *.deb

[walter.serner]

Thanks, but didn't work.

I put the file xmms_1.2.7-1_i386.deb in the folder home/walter/test, changed into
this directory and ran the command. Only got an error message.

What have I done wrong?

Walter

[nemin]

I put the file xmms_1.2.7-1_i386.deb in the folder home/walter/test, changed into
this directory and ran the command. Only got an error message.

Post the message here please.

[walter.serner]

dpkg: error processing xmms_1.2.7_i386.de (- - install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were returned while processing:
xmms_1.2.7_i386.de

Thanks,
Walter

[hashimoto]

Looks like you miss the letter "b" at the end of the file name. It should end with ".deb"

But I may be wrong

[nemin]

dpkg: error processing xmms_1.2.7_i386.de (- - install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were returned while processing:
xmms_1.2.7_i386.de
Looks like you forgot the "b". Typ ls to see the exact filename.

[walter.serner]

The missing "b" is only a typo here in my posting. It had been included In the original
command.

Thanks,
Walter

[nemin]

The missing "b" is only a typo here in my posting. It had been included In the original
command.Then you must have made a typo somewhere else in the command. Really, you can only get this error when the filename you enter doesn't exists in the directory. As I said, with `ls` you can see the directory content...

[walter.serner]

Thanks nemin,

you are right must have been a typo somewhere. Now I am facing a depency
problem which I will try to tackle tomorrow.

W.

[nemin]

you are right must have been a typo somewhere. Now I am facing a depency
problem which I will try to tackle tomorrow.Good luck with it, mixing packages from repositories and downloaded stuff won't give you the most easy-to-fix problems;)

[walter.serner]

That's a bit disappointing as I hoped for Linux/Ubuntu giving me more choices than
Windows. I am running Win98 SE on my laptop and can download, install heaps
of programs, test them and still my system is very reliable.

It would be highly appreciated if anyone can suggest how to comfortably install
programs from a cd without the hassle of check all the dependencies of packages
manually.

[fishfork]

Perhaps you could download the packages from the ftp server, and then make your own package CD using the instructions here (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions) (look for "How to make your own package CD for offline use" near the end).