Re: [LUG] Migrating to Linux

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Beard wrote:

> Ahh, thanks for that, I don't mind leaving it downloading packages.  I 
> don't have broadband yet, good old Telewest wouldn't answer the phone 
> today so I guess I might give them a miss and try Eclipse instead.
>
> I have a Wanadoo Anytime account at the moment that pretty much stays 
> connected 24x7, I know is against the T&C's but I'm not keeping it for 
> much longer.
>
> I'll have a look at the urpmi method later.
>
> Rob

Hi Rob,

I'm using MDK 10.0 as well, and Thunderbird/Firefox as my email/browser 
combo.  The pair of them installed into my home directory 
/home/julian/thunderbird (and .thunderbird) and /home/julian/firefox 
(and .firefox) respectively.  It seems to me, as a relative newbie like 
you to the guts of Linux, that this particular installer dumps 
everything into a subfolder of where you run the installer from.  I 
could be wrong, but that's what it looked like to me.

The method I used was as follows:

1. Download the latest firefox (or thunderbird) tar.gz file and unpack 
it where you want it to install.  Might be an idea to install it as I 
ddi to your /home directory as I did... that way if Mandrake goes belly 
up and you need to reinstall, provided /home is on a separate partition 
you won't lose anything :)

2. In a console run the file 'thunderbird-installer' or firefox-installer.

Job's a good un :)

Kind regards,

Julian

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