I'm a dumb in linux.... help please!

[g-n-t]

thanks guys for u replies, well I was able to load CD, now when I insert and run the command "./firefox-installer" this is what the console say: ./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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in the future, the easy way to do it is like this

download the firefox zipped folder to your desktop or home folder

right click it

extract-here

open the extracted folder and right click on it again

actions-open terminal here

then type in ./whatever

[JustGeorge]

I installed FF that way once but it didn't put FF in the kernel path and it just installed in the same place I unzipped it. Wouldn't this be the incorrect way to do it? I'm a Linux dumb@ss myself, so Please educate me for God's sake!

[g-n-t]

no, its ok to do that. you should then put a symlink to it from /usr/bin/

[Favorable7404]

weird. why you guys try to run the installer in terminal? me, a dumb too :), just double-clicked it in fedora and choose the path to install, easy ~^_^.

[JustGeorge]

no, its ok to do that. you should then put a symlink to it from /usr/bin/

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Okay, so I can then place the FF folder anywhere I want and use a symlink to place it in the kernal path?

Now..How do we create a symlink?

Thanks :)

[markwolfe Veteran]

Denzilla, what distro do you use? If you are untarring and making firefox on your own, you are probably doing more manual work than is needed...

Something along the lines of a package manager, like apt-get, would be a better way of adding firefox.

EDIT: and a symlink is just an option of the regular ln command, but you use the -s switch.

[JustGeorge]

I'm running Kubuntu. BTW, I have a pretty good grasp of using Kynaptic now, so I did learn how to install apps that way :) My brain appears to be clicking with Kubuntu, so prolly gonna be my distro of choice for awhile. I mainly wanted to install apps manually just for the experience.

LOL...I don't fully understand

" EDIT: and a symlink is just an option of the regular ln command, but you use the -s switch."

No Black Belt with command lines,yet ;)

[dotRoot]

" EDIT: and a symlink is just an option of the regular ln command, but you use the -s switch."

No Black Belt with command lines,yet ;)

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think of a symlink just like a Windows shortcut. The symlink is a little better though.

ln -s target-file new-shortcut

So like if I wanted to make a symlink on my desktop for firefox I'd open the terminal and type:

ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /home/dotRoot/Desktop/firefox

And that's it.