Firefox 3 install problems
Firefox 3 install problems
I have firepup in 420 and I have tried to download firefox 3 but I do not know what to do with it when I try to install it and I have tried several way. Maybe someone can give me a clue.
1. First place to check is "Menu->Setup->Puppy package manager".
If it isn't list there for installation, then:
2. My advice would be to 1st install the "X File Explorer" [Xfe].
Heres how:
(a) Go to post #24 here in my Puppy Linux thread at the PC-Guide forums, and...
(b) If you can, use the links to directly install the PET files.
You should be offered the opportunity to use the default PETGET installation program.
If that isn't offered, then things get more complicated and you would need to try...
(c) Use your existing file browser to make a temporary storage folder.
[Perhaps name it 00 under / so it will sit at the top of the folder system {/00}].
Then save the PET file to that location.
Then navigate to that PET file and right-click it and choose "Open".
The PET file content should then be installed by PETGET.
(d) Once Xfe is installed, reboot.
Now you have a much better file explorer.
3. Here is the PET file for Firefox 3.0.3
User Name = puppy & Password = linux [enter twice?].
And...
Here is the md5sum used to check the above Firefox PET file is uncorrupted.
Here is the md5sum value = fd5842a9e27723a950f747fa482cbee1
And...
These links are listed in post #98 here in my Puppy Linux thread at the PC-Guide forum.
It would be a good idea for you to begin at the end of that thread and work back to the beginning, to take a look at all the useful Puppy info and links.
4. Here's how I normally install:
(a) Download the PET file to /00.
(b) Use Xfe to navigate to view the contents of /00 including the PET file.
(c) I have verifypet installed; you install it using the links at post #73 here.
Heres the PET: verifypet-0.1.pet
Navigate to the folder holding the PET file you wish to verify.
Open a terminal in that folder by clicking the terminal icon above in the Xfe toolbar.
Type the first few characters of verifypet and hit the "Tab" key twice and the full command name will be completed.
If there are other commands beginning with those characters, all of them will be displayed, so retype the full command you require.
Now type the 1st few characters of the name of the PET file and hit "Tab" to complete the full name of the PET file.
With both the command name and the filename in place, hit "Enter".
In this case it's a verifypet command acting upon a PET file so it will confirm that the PET file is OK [or not].
It does this by comparing a calculated md5sum with the internal md5sum stored in the PET file.
(d) An alternative to (c) above is to use the same method, but use the md5sum command, and compare the value produced with the md5sum value quoted by the provider of the file.
If it isn't list there for installation, then:
2. My advice would be to 1st install the "X File Explorer" [Xfe].
Heres how:
(a) Go to post #24 here in my Puppy Linux thread at the PC-Guide forums, and...
(b) If you can, use the links to directly install the PET files.
You should be offered the opportunity to use the default PETGET installation program.
If that isn't offered, then things get more complicated and you would need to try...
(c) Use your existing file browser to make a temporary storage folder.
[Perhaps name it 00 under / so it will sit at the top of the folder system {/00}].
Then save the PET file to that location.
Then navigate to that PET file and right-click it and choose "Open".
The PET file content should then be installed by PETGET.
(d) Once Xfe is installed, reboot.
Now you have a much better file explorer.
3. Here is the PET file for Firefox 3.0.3
User Name = puppy & Password = linux [enter twice?].
And...
Here is the md5sum used to check the above Firefox PET file is uncorrupted.
Here is the md5sum value = fd5842a9e27723a950f747fa482cbee1
And...
These links are listed in post #98 here in my Puppy Linux thread at the PC-Guide forum.
It would be a good idea for you to begin at the end of that thread and work back to the beginning, to take a look at all the useful Puppy info and links.
4. Here's how I normally install:
(a) Download the PET file to /00.
(b) Use Xfe to navigate to view the contents of /00 including the PET file.
(c) I have verifypet installed; you install it using the links at post #73 here.
Heres the PET: verifypet-0.1.pet
Navigate to the folder holding the PET file you wish to verify.
Open a terminal in that folder by clicking the terminal icon above in the Xfe toolbar.
Type the first few characters of verifypet and hit the "Tab" key twice and the full command name will be completed.
If there are other commands beginning with those characters, all of them will be displayed, so retype the full command you require.
Now type the 1st few characters of the name of the PET file and hit "Tab" to complete the full name of the PET file.
With both the command name and the filename in place, hit "Enter".
In this case it's a verifypet command acting upon a PET file so it will confirm that the PET file is OK [or not].
It does this by comparing a calculated md5sum with the internal md5sum stored in the PET file.
(d) An alternative to (c) above is to use the same method, but use the md5sum command, and compare the value produced with the md5sum value quoted by the provider of the file.
