[wellylug] trouble installing firefox into Mandrake 10.1

Rosemary McGillicuddy mcgillra at infogen.net.nz
Wed Feb 16 02:48:17 NZDT 2005


I downloaded firefox and it is sitting in home/rosemary/Downloads. I
found some info about installing and have tried to follow it.

rosemary at localhost rosemary]$ cd home/
bash: cd: home/: No such file or directory
[rosemary at localhost rosemary]$ cd home
bash: cd: home: No such file or directory
[rosemary at localhost rosemary]$ cd home/
bash: cd: home/: No such file or directory
[rosemary at localhost rosemary]$ cd /home
[rosemary at localhost home]$ cd rosemary/
[rosemary at localhost rosemary]$ cd Downloads
[rosemary at localhost Downloads]$ ls
browser.xpi  Firefox/  firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz  firefox-installer/
[rosemary at localhost Downloads]$ tar -xvf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 1071 bytes from firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[rosemary at localhost Downloads]$ tar -xzvf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
firefox-installer/
firefox-installer/xpi/
firefox-installer/xpi/adt.xpi
tar: firefox-installer/xpi/adt.xpi: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/xpi/browser.xpi
tar: firefox-installer/xpi/browser.xpi: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/xpi/en-US.xpi
tar: firefox-installer/xpi/en-US.xpi: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/xpi/help.xpi
tar: firefox-installer/xpi/help.xpi: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/xpi/talkback.xpi
tar: firefox-installer/xpi/talkback.xpi: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/xpi/xpcom.xpi
tar: firefox-installer/xpi/xpcom.xpi: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/config.ini
tar: firefox-installer/xpi: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: firefox-installer/config.ini: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/header.png
tar: firefox-installer/header.png: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/install.ini
tar: firefox-installer/install.ini: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/license.txt
tar: firefox-installer/license.txt: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/watermark.png
tar: firefox-installer/watermark.png: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/firefox-installer
tar: firefox-installer/firefox-installer: Cannot open: File exists
firefox-installer/firefox-installer-bin
tar: firefox-installer/firefox-installer-bin: Cannot open: File exists
tar: firefox-installer: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[rosemary at localhost Downloads]$

Can anyone help please.  Thanks
Rosemary




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