26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
8:46 a.m.
Hi,
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).
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 not, should be logged in as root to install firefox on my system?
- where should I install firefox? in /usr/local/bin/? in /opt/ ?
- there are three different users on my system, what should I do to make
sure they all can use firefox once it's installed?
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>
thanks for any help
Serge
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26 Nov
26 Nov
10:12 a.m.
Hi Serge,
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:46:47AM +0100, Serge Marelli wrote:
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.
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.
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.
Greets & hth, Eric
28 Nov
28 Nov
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:
Presently I downloaded and installed it as root, it is in
/usr/local/bin/ and put a symlink in /usr/bin/
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.
I tried, same result. Two points :
1) DISPLAY was allready set, so no change then
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.
- 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. 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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29 Nov
29 Nov
6:30 a.m.
Serge Marelli wrote:
I might have missed some points here. Serge, are you running SuSE Linux
9.2 ?
Firefox & Thunderbird are packaged on the distribution CDs of SuSE 9.2
as RPMs and install right well, so why a ".TGZ" ?
Maybe you are running SuSE 9.1, so why not upgrade ? Or maybe not SuSE,
so I misunderstood.
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8:13 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 07:30, Brent Frère wrote:
I'm presently still using an updated SuSE 9.0, I updated it to 9.1 (I
believe) but haven't taken the time to locate some 9.2 CD/DVD to (re)
install...
I don't feel like going through a full back up and reinstall presently.
(Feels like I'll wait for SuSE 10 before that :-} )
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30 Nov
30 Nov
7:11 a.m.
Upgrade SuSE 9.1 - > 9.2 works very well. No noticiable problem with this.
A backup is always a good idea, but at Plan-Net, we are so confident in
the upgrade process that we don't even take special measures when
upgrading SuSE Linux. It is one of the big advantages of SuSE on RedHat,
I think.
Serge Marelli wrote:
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