XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:06:13 -0600, Buckaroo Cowboy wrote:   
   > What is the trick to get this 18 to run?   
      
   Depends on the system admin.  :)   
      
   > I unpacked it, and click on the firefox icon and nothing happens   
      
   Damn Usenet, I can not see what icon you clicked on where.  :(   
      
   > does this have to be installed thru an installer?   
      
   I found it makes life pretty easy if I read the vendor install instructions,   
   then insert each command into a script (install_firefox), select the   
   command and paste it in a root terminal.   
      
   That way I know the script has working commands. After that, add a little   
   extra bash script to automagically locate the new release, and it is a   
   piece of cake to download and then run install_firefox.   
      
   Now in your case, as system admin, you have to decide how/where you are   
   going to preform this activity.   
      
   Since I am a belt and braces kind of person, and I share that app between   
   distributions and releases, I install in /local/opt and put a link back   
   to the location of the app.   
      
   This way if the new version is hosed up, I can still use the distribution's   
   app to get help from Usenet/google/vendor's site.   
      
   Read the last 4 lines of this reply, I'll wait ...........................   
      
   Basic commands would be (snipped from script) and therefore subject to   
   being broke,   :(   
      
       _app=firefox   
       _dl_dir=/where/ever   
       _install_dir=/local/opt   
       _tar_arg='-xvpjf'   
      
       _pkg_fn=$(ls -1 $_dl_dir/${_app}*tar* 2> /dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)   
       _app_rev=$(basename $_pkg_fn $_suffix )   
      
       cd $_install_dir   
       tar $_tar_arg $_pkg_fn   
       cd /usr/local/bin   
       ln -sf /local/opt/${_app_rev}/${_app}  /usr/local/bin/   
      
   NOTE: I have created a /etc/profile.d/xx_local.sh   
   which changes the PATH variable for everyone so that /usr/local/bin   
   is before /bin and /usr/bin.   
      
   You might notice if you change _app to thunderbird,   
   it can install thunderbird   
      
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   Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.   
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