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Tuesday June 20 2006, @11:58PM
KDE
I'm writing this from my old Dell (still a P4 so not THAT old), with a fresh install of Kubuntu. (That's Ubuntu with KDE instead of gnome.) It's been a while since I've used Linux. I have 3 SunOS boxes at work, but I don't do much on them except SSH into them and sync files from perforce into the tomcat directory. I'm trying to get Firefox installed. I downloaded the tarball and su'd to root to extract it. (Is it normal to not have write access to /usr/local/bin without being root?) Now it won't run, something about can't find a library. I'm betting I don't have execute rights, so I guess I need to remember how to use chown, huh? :-)

Nevermind, I found Adept... filter: firefox. Click Install. Run it. That's nice. :-)

Oh and all you MS haters... I just ran Adept updater to get my system up to date.... 194 updates. :-)


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  • Is really nice, I have it dual booting from this machine along with winxp.

    Problem is I can't get my friggin sound card to put sound out via the SPDIF so it makes running linux pointless.

    If I can't surf and listen to music what's the point? I need somethin
  • Yes, that's normal.

    Just use sudo ./firefox-installer-bin or whatever the installer binary was. Save ya a lot of time.

    Or, better yet, use sudo apt-get install firefox (or mozilla-firefox, can't remember the pkg name -- beer)

    Still better (I know I know, I'll
    • Now that the beer's worn off.

      Don't sudo ./[firefox binary] ... run it as yourself [non-root] and install it to somewhere you have write permissions.
      I don't mean chowning /usr/bin either. Perhaps make a /myprograms and chown that, and point the installer th
  • Is it normal to not have write access to /usr/local/bin without being root?

    Yes. Otherwise, what happens when I replace ls or something as a non-priv user, and you come along and run it as root?
    • That's what I assumed, but I'm not a linux guru, so I'd rather ask and look like a n00b than make false assumptions. :-)
  • If it's a single-user system, don't bother extracting as root. Just copy the tarball to your home directory, and extract it as your normal user. Otherwise, you'll run into permissions problems when you try to use Firefox's built-in update system.
  • %s/\/usr\/local\/bin/[the place where you really want stuff]/g

    usr local bin is and has always been at best a cop out, and at worst a strong arm into forcing you to have a filesystem dictated by others.

    have fun makefiling.
  • Hey,

    I've set up my Sun Ultra 10 with Gentoo. (still from CD, no install as of yet) I've set up a cross compiler om my other machines (x86) so the compile goes quickly. Compiling is a matter of trusting the remote machine - I know - but having read your Jou

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