28 Nov
2004
28 Nov
'04
8:31 p.m.
Hi,
and thanks for the answer, and thanks to Brent as well.
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:12, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
What I thought
I actually logged in as root, felt almost strange doing so :-)
I'm using a SuSE.
I'd checked and found a few other apps in /usr/local/bin/xxx so that's
where I put it. As mentionned above, I also put a symlink to the main
executable in /usr/bin/.
I later found that a few apps like OOo, Netscape and Mozilla were
installed in /opt/ so I was wondering.
Haven't seen any rpm at all, all I've seen is the tgz.
Well that's strange... in a way.
I launched it twice from KDE icons on the desktop and got no result at
all, so I launched it from a shell in order to get the messages. So the
shell _was_ run by the same user.
Hi Serge,
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:46:47AM +0100, Serge Marelli wrote:
Presently I downloaded and installed it as root, it is in
/usr/local/bin/ and put a symlink in /usr/bin/
I went on the website, downloaded the firefox
installer and "installed"
it (as root) but my other users can't use it. For some reason, it won't
start. It did work when I ran it as the user who installed it (root).
Hmm... where did you install it? Did you install it into root's
home directory, or someplace accessible by every user (/usr/local
for instance)? I'd like
to know the following things in general:
- do I need to be logged in as root to install firefox on my system?
If it's to be used by every user on the system, definitely yes. - if not,
should be logged in as root to install firefox on my system?
sux -c "/path/to/firefox-installer"
should do. (sux is a wrapper around su that will properly set what
you need to allow output to your X11 session) - where should
I install firefox? in /usr/local/bin/? in /opt/ ?
Depends on your distro and your own tastes. I'd put it into /usr/local. - there are
three different users on my system, what should I do to make
sure they all can use firefox once it's installed?
Install as root into a place that's in the normal PATH, or else add
the path to mozilla-firefox to your $PATH (/etc/profile).
Or to make your life easier, install a package that's ready-made
for your distribution. About my
specific problem, I launched firefox from the shell and got the
following error message:
<quote>
user@host:~> firefox
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
(firefox-bin:5584): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
</quote>
That sounds like that user was another one that the one you logged
into your X11 session with. What happens if you do a
export DISPLAY=:0
xauth merge ~loginuser/.Xauthority
mozilla-firefox &
? - you shouldn't get that error.
I tried, same result. Two points :
1) DISPLAY was allready set, so no change then
Btw. I wrote "mozilla-firefox" because
that's what the executable
is called here on my Debian installation. I didn't try the installer
which is provided from the website.
2) there are three executables in /usr/local/bin/firefox/,
- firefox is a shell script,
- firefox-bin seems to be the actual binary and
- run-mozilla.sh is another shell scripts
I tried each of them, from my home directory and from whithin
/usr/local/bin/firefox/
to no special result.
Greets & hth, Eric
thanks anyway, I'll check on the firefox forums later
It's frustrating because it seems to work whithout a hitch when
installed under windows :-/
Serge
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