Posted: Sun 15 Mar 2020, 00:21
I would suggest that you click on the PM tarball, which give you some menu choices, choose select all, and extract. You may choose to extract the PM directly to /opt/, or extract it to the same dir as the tarball. If you extract it to the same dir, move the resulting PM to /opt/, by the mv command, or just open an /opt / window and drag the PM over, and use the move pop-up menu choice.
1) Click on the /opt/palemoon/ dir to open it, right-click the /opt/palemoon/palemoon file, and choose Link in the pop-up menu, and make a link of it to /usr/bin/. That will make the PM's binaries visible to the system.
You can check that you've done it right: Open a terminal window and enter: which palemoon, it should answer: /usr/bin/palemoon.
2) Right-click on the Browser icon on your desktop, and choose Edit Item. The first line in the pop-up window should read: Clicking the icon opens: /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser. If not, click on the text and edit it to read that line, and save it.
3) Go to /usr/local/bin/ dir, right-click on the /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser file and open it AS TEXT, and make sure the text reads: If not, edit it, it behaves as an ordinary text file, and save it.
4) If you are using the JWM window manager, open a terminal window and enter: jwm -restart. That will make PM visible to the window manager, and let the Browser entry in various menus open PM. Many Puppys also have Restart Window Manager as a menu choice in the Exit menu.
Now you can click on the desktop Browser icon, and Palemoon should open.
If you have a frugal Puppy, use the Save icon to save the new PM to the system, but wait until you have run your new PM, and is satisfied with it. If not, don't Save, just reboot to continue to use your old browser, and the new PM is gone.
1) Click on the /opt/palemoon/ dir to open it, right-click the /opt/palemoon/palemoon file, and choose Link in the pop-up menu, and make a link of it to /usr/bin/. That will make the PM's binaries visible to the system.
You can check that you've done it right: Open a terminal window and enter: which palemoon, it should answer: /usr/bin/palemoon.
2) Right-click on the Browser icon on your desktop, and choose Edit Item. The first line in the pop-up window should read: Clicking the icon opens: /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser. If not, click on the text and edit it to read that line, and save it.
3) Go to /usr/local/bin/ dir, right-click on the /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser file and open it AS TEXT, and make sure the text reads:
Code: Select all
#!/bin/sh
exec palemoon "$@"
4) If you are using the JWM window manager, open a terminal window and enter: jwm -restart. That will make PM visible to the window manager, and let the Browser entry in various menus open PM. Many Puppys also have Restart Window Manager as a menu choice in the Exit menu.
Now you can click on the desktop Browser icon, and Palemoon should open.
If you have a frugal Puppy, use the Save icon to save the new PM to the system, but wait until you have run your new PM, and is satisfied with it. If not, don't Save, just reboot to continue to use your old browser, and the new PM is gone.