I am having trouble getting my Tar.gz file to execute. I do the following
tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.1.tar.gz at the terminal once installed I can not get the firefox Icon or bin to execute. I do not know how to configure the path to get it to work. It places the folder under the /root/usr/local/bin. But will not execute. I tried linking the two bin and still dosent work. It also dosent place the firefox bin under the local usr bin. Help please.
It should place everything in /usr/lib/firefox. Then you should be able to run /usr/lib/firefox/firefox. Note that this is just a shell wrapper around the firefox-bin executable. I'm using FC4. YMMV.
have you used "gunzip" before "tar" on the file? "tar *.tar.gz" dosen't work...
I will give it a try. Thanks
The "z" option with GNU tar should filter the file through gzip... so that shouldn't have anything to do with the error... it should still unpack the tar.gz file.
From my man page on tar ( GNU tar ):
-z, --gzip, --gunzip, --ungzip
filter the archive through gzip
i'm on solaris and there is no -z option in tar. but thnax for the information!
It won't, they will have to be moved there. By default, GNU tar strips the leading / from absolute pathnames.