mlnease
March 14th, 2009, 11:14 PM
Hello,
I've been trying to install Firefox 3.1 Beta in Hardy from firefox-3.1b3.tar.bz2. I'm accustomed to installing tar files via the command line using 'sudo tar -xzvf etc.'. I gathered after some Googling that what I needed was to
run the command 'tar -xvjf firefox-3.1b3.tar.bz2';
close Firefox;
then run ~/firefox/firefox from terminal.
Here's the terminal output from step one:
firefox/
firefox/firefox
firefox/libnssdbm3.so
firefox/libnssckbi.so
firefox/application.ini
firefox/updater.ini
firefox/libnssutil3.so
firefox/libssl3.so
firefox/plugins/
firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so
firefox/libsoftokn3.so
firefox/libsoftokn3.chk
firefox/updater
firefox/modules/
firefox/modules/ISO8601DateUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/distribution.js
firefox/modules/PluralForm.jsm
firefox/modules/Microformats.js
firefox/modules/PlacesDBUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/debug.js
firefox/modules/WindowDraggingUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/SpatialNavigation.js
firefox/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/DownloadUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/utils.js
firefox/old-homepage-default.properties
firefox/crashreporter-override.ini
firefox/components/
firefox/components/FeedConverter.js
firefox/components/aboutSessionRestore.js
firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js
firefox/components/aboutPrivateBrowsing.js
firefox/components/jsconsole-clhandler.js
firefox/components/nsBlocklistService.js
firefox/components/nsUrlClassifierLib.js
firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so
firefox/components/storage-mozStorage.js
firefox/components/aboutCertError.js
firefox/components/nsTryToClose.js
firefox/components/nsHandlerService.js
firefox/components/nsURLFormatter.js
firefox/components/nsMicrosummaryService.js
firefox/components/nsContentPrefService.js
firefox/components/nsBadCertHandler.js
firefox/components/nsSessionStartup.js
firefox/components/fuelApplication.js
firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js
firefox/components/storage-Legacy.js
firefox/components/libimgicon.so
firefox/components/nsPrivateBrowsingService.js
firefox/components/nsSafebrowsingApplication.js
firefox/components/nsContentDispatchChooser.js
firefox/components/nsSetDefaultBrowser.js
firefox/components/libmozgnome.so
firefox/components/aboutRobots.js
firefox/components/nsLivemarkService.js
firefox/components/nsBrowserGlue.js
firefox/components/nsTaggingService.js
firefox/components/nsSidebar.js
firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js
firefox/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js
firefox/components/nsUrlClassifierListManager.js
firefox/components/libbrowserdirprovider.so
firefox/components/nsWebHandlerApp.js
firefox/components/FeedWriter.js
firefox/components/nsProxyAutoConfig.js
firefox/components/nsDefaultCLH.js
firefox/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js
firefox/components/FeedProcessor.js
firefox/components/nsSearchSuggestions.js
firefox/components/nsPlacesDBFlush.js
firefox/components/nsSessionStore.js
firefox/components/nsDownloadManagerUI.js
firefox/components/nsSearchService.js
firefox/components/pluginGlue.js
firefox/components/nsFilePicker.js
firefox/components/nsLoginInfo.js
firefox/components/nsAddonRepository.js
firefox/components/libdbusservice.so
firefox/components/WebContentConverter.js
firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so
firefox/components/browser.xpt
firefox/components/nsPlacesTransactionsService.js
firefox/components/nsUpdateService.js
firefox/components/aboutRights.js
firefox/components/txEXSLTRegExFunctions.js
firefox/libxpcom.so
firefox/run-mozilla.sh
firefox/libsqlite3.so
firefox/mozilla-xremote-client
firefox/libnspr4.so
firefox/Throbber-small.gif
firefox/.autoreg
firefox/libfreebl3.chk
firefox/crashreporter.ini
firefox/extensions/
firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/
firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf
firefox/dictionaries/
firefox/dictionaries/en-US.dic
firefox/dictionaries/en-US.aff
firefox/libxul.so
firefox/firefox-bin
firefox/libfreebl3.so
firefox/icons/
firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
firefox/icons/mozicon16.xpm
firefox/icons/document.png
firefox/icons/mozicon50.xpm
firefox/searchplugins/
firefox/searchplugins/answers.xml
firefox/searchplugins/wikipedia.xml
firefox/searchplugins/eBay.xml
firefox/searchplugins/creativecommons.xml
firefox/searchplugins/yahoo.xml
firefox/searchplugins/google.xml
firefox/searchplugins/amazondotcom.xml
firefox/README.txt
firefox/libplc4.so
firefox/platform.ini
firefox/res/
firefox/res/forms.css
firefox/res/table-add-row-after-active.gif
firefox/res/table-add-row-after-hover.gif
firefox/res/table-add-row-before.gif
firefox/res/broken-image.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-after-active.gif
firefox/res/unixcharset.properties
firefox/res/fonts/
firefox/res/fonts/mathfont.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontStandardSymbolsL.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontSTIXSize1.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontUnicode.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontSTIXNonUnicode.properties
firefox/res/langGroups.properties
firefox/res/contenteditable.css
firefox/res/quirk.css
firefox/res/table-add-column-before-hover.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-after-hover.gif
firefox/res/designmode.css
firefox/res/hiddenWindow.html
firefox/res/arrow.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-column.gif
firefox/res/html/
firefox/res/html/folder.png
firefox/res/table-remove-column-hover.gif
firefox/res/arrowd.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-row-active.gif
firefox/res/dtd/
firefox/res/dtd/mathml.dtd
firefox/res/dtd/xhtml11.dtd
firefox/res/grabber.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-row-hover.gif
firefox/res/language.properties
firefox/res/viewsource.css
firefox/res/table-add-row-before-hover.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-before.gif
firefox/res/entityTables/
firefox/res/entityTables/html40Latin1.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/mathml20.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/html40Symbols.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/html40Special.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/transliterate.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/htmlEntityVersions.properties
firefox/res/table-add-column-before-active.gif
firefox/res/charsetalias.properties
firefox/res/EditorOverride.css
firefox/res/mathml.css
firefox/res/ua.css
firefox/res/table-add-row-after.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-after.gif
firefox/res/loading-image.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-row.gif
firefox/res/charsetData.properties
firefox/res/html.css
firefox/res/svg.css
firefox/res/table-remove-column-active.gif
firefox/res/table-add-row-before-active.gif
firefox/chrome/
firefox/chrome/reporter.jar
firefox/chrome/classic.jar
firefox/chrome/en-US.manifest
firefox/chrome/classic.manifest
firefox/chrome/pippki.manifest
firefox/chrome/en-US.jar
firefox/chrome/pippki.jar
firefox/chrome/icons/
firefox/chrome/icons/default/
firefox/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
firefox/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
firefox/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
firefox/chrome/reporter.manifest
firefox/chrome/toolkit.jar
firefox/chrome/browser.jar
firefox/chrome/comm.manifest
firefox/chrome/browser.manifest
firefox/chrome/toolkit.manifest
firefox/chrome/comm.jar
firefox/browserconfig.properties
firefox/defaults/
firefox/defaults/pref/
firefox/defaults/pref/firefox-branding.js
firefox/defaults/pref/reporter.js
firefox/defaults/pref/firefox.js
firefox/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
firefox/defaults/pref/firefox-l10n.js
firefox/defaults/profile/
firefox/defaults/profile/prefs.js
firefox/defaults/profile/mimeTypes.rdf
firefox/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html
firefox/defaults/profile/localstore.rdf
firefox/defaults/profile/chrome/
firefox/defaults/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css
firefox/defaults/profile/chrome/userChrome-example.css
firefox/defaults/autoconfig/
firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js
firefox/libsmime3.so
firefox/removed-files
firefox/crashreporter
firefox/blocklist.xml
firefox/libnss3.so
firefox/greprefs/
firefox/greprefs/xpinstall.js
firefox/greprefs/all.js
firefox/greprefs/security-prefs.js
firefox/libmozjs.so
firefox/libplds4.so
I've done these steps several times now, with only the result that Firefox 3.0.7 opens as usual. Am I missing something? Any help much appreciated.
mike
I've been trying to install Firefox 3.1 Beta in Hardy from firefox-3.1b3.tar.bz2. I'm accustomed to installing tar files via the command line using 'sudo tar -xzvf etc.'. I gathered after some Googling that what I needed was to
run the command 'tar -xvjf firefox-3.1b3.tar.bz2';
close Firefox;
then run ~/firefox/firefox from terminal.
Here's the terminal output from step one:
firefox/
firefox/firefox
firefox/libnssdbm3.so
firefox/libnssckbi.so
firefox/application.ini
firefox/updater.ini
firefox/libnssutil3.so
firefox/libssl3.so
firefox/plugins/
firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so
firefox/libsoftokn3.so
firefox/libsoftokn3.chk
firefox/updater
firefox/modules/
firefox/modules/ISO8601DateUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/distribution.js
firefox/modules/PluralForm.jsm
firefox/modules/Microformats.js
firefox/modules/PlacesDBUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/debug.js
firefox/modules/WindowDraggingUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/SpatialNavigation.js
firefox/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/DownloadUtils.jsm
firefox/modules/utils.js
firefox/old-homepage-default.properties
firefox/crashreporter-override.ini
firefox/components/
firefox/components/FeedConverter.js
firefox/components/aboutSessionRestore.js
firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js
firefox/components/aboutPrivateBrowsing.js
firefox/components/jsconsole-clhandler.js
firefox/components/nsBlocklistService.js
firefox/components/nsUrlClassifierLib.js
firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so
firefox/components/storage-mozStorage.js
firefox/components/aboutCertError.js
firefox/components/nsTryToClose.js
firefox/components/nsHandlerService.js
firefox/components/nsURLFormatter.js
firefox/components/nsMicrosummaryService.js
firefox/components/nsContentPrefService.js
firefox/components/nsBadCertHandler.js
firefox/components/nsSessionStartup.js
firefox/components/fuelApplication.js
firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js
firefox/components/storage-Legacy.js
firefox/components/libimgicon.so
firefox/components/nsPrivateBrowsingService.js
firefox/components/nsSafebrowsingApplication.js
firefox/components/nsContentDispatchChooser.js
firefox/components/nsSetDefaultBrowser.js
firefox/components/libmozgnome.so
firefox/components/aboutRobots.js
firefox/components/nsLivemarkService.js
firefox/components/nsBrowserGlue.js
firefox/components/nsTaggingService.js
firefox/components/nsSidebar.js
firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js
firefox/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js
firefox/components/nsUrlClassifierListManager.js
firefox/components/libbrowserdirprovider.so
firefox/components/nsWebHandlerApp.js
firefox/components/FeedWriter.js
firefox/components/nsProxyAutoConfig.js
firefox/components/nsDefaultCLH.js
firefox/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js
firefox/components/FeedProcessor.js
firefox/components/nsSearchSuggestions.js
firefox/components/nsPlacesDBFlush.js
firefox/components/nsSessionStore.js
firefox/components/nsDownloadManagerUI.js
firefox/components/nsSearchService.js
firefox/components/pluginGlue.js
firefox/components/nsFilePicker.js
firefox/components/nsLoginInfo.js
firefox/components/nsAddonRepository.js
firefox/components/libdbusservice.so
firefox/components/WebContentConverter.js
firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so
firefox/components/browser.xpt
firefox/components/nsPlacesTransactionsService.js
firefox/components/nsUpdateService.js
firefox/components/aboutRights.js
firefox/components/txEXSLTRegExFunctions.js
firefox/libxpcom.so
firefox/run-mozilla.sh
firefox/libsqlite3.so
firefox/mozilla-xremote-client
firefox/libnspr4.so
firefox/Throbber-small.gif
firefox/.autoreg
firefox/libfreebl3.chk
firefox/crashreporter.ini
firefox/extensions/
firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/
firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf
firefox/dictionaries/
firefox/dictionaries/en-US.dic
firefox/dictionaries/en-US.aff
firefox/libxul.so
firefox/firefox-bin
firefox/libfreebl3.so
firefox/icons/
firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
firefox/icons/mozicon16.xpm
firefox/icons/document.png
firefox/icons/mozicon50.xpm
firefox/searchplugins/
firefox/searchplugins/answers.xml
firefox/searchplugins/wikipedia.xml
firefox/searchplugins/eBay.xml
firefox/searchplugins/creativecommons.xml
firefox/searchplugins/yahoo.xml
firefox/searchplugins/google.xml
firefox/searchplugins/amazondotcom.xml
firefox/README.txt
firefox/libplc4.so
firefox/platform.ini
firefox/res/
firefox/res/forms.css
firefox/res/table-add-row-after-active.gif
firefox/res/table-add-row-after-hover.gif
firefox/res/table-add-row-before.gif
firefox/res/broken-image.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-after-active.gif
firefox/res/unixcharset.properties
firefox/res/fonts/
firefox/res/fonts/mathfont.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontStandardSymbolsL.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontSTIXSize1.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontUnicode.properties
firefox/res/fonts/mathfontSTIXNonUnicode.properties
firefox/res/langGroups.properties
firefox/res/contenteditable.css
firefox/res/quirk.css
firefox/res/table-add-column-before-hover.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-after-hover.gif
firefox/res/designmode.css
firefox/res/hiddenWindow.html
firefox/res/arrow.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-column.gif
firefox/res/html/
firefox/res/html/folder.png
firefox/res/table-remove-column-hover.gif
firefox/res/arrowd.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-row-active.gif
firefox/res/dtd/
firefox/res/dtd/mathml.dtd
firefox/res/dtd/xhtml11.dtd
firefox/res/grabber.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-row-hover.gif
firefox/res/language.properties
firefox/res/viewsource.css
firefox/res/table-add-row-before-hover.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-before.gif
firefox/res/entityTables/
firefox/res/entityTables/html40Latin1.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/mathml20.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/html40Symbols.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/html40Special.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/transliterate.properties
firefox/res/entityTables/htmlEntityVersions.properties
firefox/res/table-add-column-before-active.gif
firefox/res/charsetalias.properties
firefox/res/EditorOverride.css
firefox/res/mathml.css
firefox/res/ua.css
firefox/res/table-add-row-after.gif
firefox/res/table-add-column-after.gif
firefox/res/loading-image.gif
firefox/res/table-remove-row.gif
firefox/res/charsetData.properties
firefox/res/html.css
firefox/res/svg.css
firefox/res/table-remove-column-active.gif
firefox/res/table-add-row-before-active.gif
firefox/chrome/
firefox/chrome/reporter.jar
firefox/chrome/classic.jar
firefox/chrome/en-US.manifest
firefox/chrome/classic.manifest
firefox/chrome/pippki.manifest
firefox/chrome/en-US.jar
firefox/chrome/pippki.jar
firefox/chrome/icons/
firefox/chrome/icons/default/
firefox/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
firefox/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
firefox/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
firefox/chrome/reporter.manifest
firefox/chrome/toolkit.jar
firefox/chrome/browser.jar
firefox/chrome/comm.manifest
firefox/chrome/browser.manifest
firefox/chrome/toolkit.manifest
firefox/chrome/comm.jar
firefox/browserconfig.properties
firefox/defaults/
firefox/defaults/pref/
firefox/defaults/pref/firefox-branding.js
firefox/defaults/pref/reporter.js
firefox/defaults/pref/firefox.js
firefox/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
firefox/defaults/pref/firefox-l10n.js
firefox/defaults/profile/
firefox/defaults/profile/prefs.js
firefox/defaults/profile/mimeTypes.rdf
firefox/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html
firefox/defaults/profile/localstore.rdf
firefox/defaults/profile/chrome/
firefox/defaults/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css
firefox/defaults/profile/chrome/userChrome-example.css
firefox/defaults/autoconfig/
firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js
firefox/libsmime3.so
firefox/removed-files
firefox/crashreporter
firefox/blocklist.xml
firefox/libnss3.so
firefox/greprefs/
firefox/greprefs/xpinstall.js
firefox/greprefs/all.js
firefox/greprefs/security-prefs.js
firefox/libmozjs.so
firefox/libplds4.so
I've done these steps several times now, with only the result that Firefox 3.0.7 opens as usual. Am I missing something? Any help much appreciated.
mike