I can't install Firefox on Fedora Core 2

[BWF89]

HORRAY!
I just got Fedora Core 2 to run on my Windows backup partition which has 2.6 gigs...

Anyway, I downloaded Firefox but when I clicked on the installation file I got this:


How do I make it so when I click on the Firefox installation it installs as it would with Windows?

I also need a Redhat driver for a Cannon S520 printer...

[jdong]

yum install firefox

[jdong]

Why FC2, not FC3? Why FC? Why not another Ubuntu, say, Hoary? Why am I asking you? Why am I asking you why I am asking you? Why am I asking you why I am asking you why am I asking you?

[BWF89]

yum install firefox

I have Up2date. And it doesn't say anything about Firefox on it...

Why FC2, not FC3? Why FC? Why not another Ubuntu, say, Hoary? Why am I asking you? Why am I asking you why I am asking you? Why am I asking you why I am asking you why am I asking you?

Because Ubuntu's partitioning software scared me and Fedora's was easy. And because I only have 2.6 gigs of hdd space and FD3 is probably bigger than FC2. And because I just happened to have FD2 laying around the house...

[jdong]

Use some 3rd party repository, whether freshrpms or dag. Use APT if possible, too. Firefox is prepackaged in a lot of those repositories.

[ChrisP]

because a teenager is asking an adult for advice and said teenager has got under aldults skin. Like duh?....................

[BWF89]

I tried Freshrpms...

Can someone just give me the link to a good site that has Redhat compatible software that installs right out of the box?

[eBopBob]

BWF89, you so should have gone for SuSE!
It'd have been so much easier to install Firefox there.

How do I make it so when I click on the Firefox installation it installs as it would with Windows?

Sorry, I've not used FC2 although do have it on four CDs (Darn, paid £5 for it and never used it!!). But I know in SuSE with YaST, it was pretty much like in Windows. Not looking exactly the same, however just as easy. Although, TBH, I found compiling from source was also just as easy.
However if you have a .tar.gz you must compile from source (I think), which is very easy to do. You shouldn't be afraid of the command line - Once you face your fears, you'll really learn in Linux and it'll help you in the future too.

Because Ubuntu's partitioning software scared me

Is it that hard?! (Is having second thoughts...)
I read though that the Ubuntu team are working on a graphical installed like that of FC, Mandrake or SuSE. Is this true?

[BWF89]

I downloaded a Firefox RPM and it still doens't work http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/255845...

How do I get it to work? How do I compile the source as you would say?

[eBopBob]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=15

Follow the instructions there. Very easy.

The only problem I had with SuSE was, and am told this is actually the same no matter what distro or package management, once I started installing some things by RPM with YaST and some things compiling from source, it would just mess up in the end and I'd have two versions of something one working here for this I installed via RPM and one for the one I compiled via source and in the end it was a real mess and some things wouldn't work.
So be careful!!!