How to install Firefox with USB created from Knoppix 6.7 CD

[Werner P. Schulz]

Please, use mc (MidnightCommander), not PCManFM; with mc you can see symlinks.

Copy your Firefox-download from Mozilla site to '/opt', select the compressed file within mc and extract it with "F2 => z"

Change your view from the other panel of mc to '/usr/bin'

Move (=rename) '/usr/bin/firefox' to '/usr/bin/firefox-old' within mc with "F6"

Select in the first panel of mc '/opt/firefox-9.0.1/firefox'; make a symlink (with mc => File => Symlink) to '/usr/bin/firefox'

To get the icons is a little more tricky.

Change view in one panelside of mc to '/opt/firefox../firefox/chrome/icons/default', in the other panelside to '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps'.

Select the entry 'default16.png'

Create a "Symbolic link filename:" '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16
/apps/firefox.png'

Do it in the same manner with 'default32.png' an 'default48.png'

[Werner P. Schulz]

... and you need a symlink from '/opt/firefox../firefox/icons/mozicon128.png' to '/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png'


Greetings Werner * http://www.wp-schulz.de/knoppix/summary.html
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[Denver Dave]

Where would I begin to understand symlinks and how to list and create them? I've done some searches, but the results don't seem to start at the beginning.

Thanks.

[Werner P. Schulz]

... the first entry within Google search
http://wiki.debian.org/SymLink

[Denver Dave]

Updating post for progress for myself if need to remember and if anyone else has the same question. If you have a better approach, please post.

Never did figure out symlinks, but extracted firefox to a new directory that I created called apps and then a firefox directory was created, right clicked and copied the firefox application from the extract directory, then right click on desktop then create new / short-cut. Launches fine.

Haven't figured out how to use the FireFox icon, but launches fine.

[Denver Dave]

In knoppix 7.2 the right click on the desktop icon, select the choice now called create link to application

To change the desktop icon, sudo gedit on file /home/knoppix/Desktop/Firefox (which is the name of the applicationlink)