[brummie69]

I cannot seem to find an easy way to replace Chrome with Firefox on the forum. Can someone post a step by step (cut and paste) guide please for Meego 1.2.

The guides I have tried so far are for 1.1 and throw up command line errors which I cannot deal with.

I have become so dependant on Firefox now Chrome just doesn't cut it for me.

Thank you in advance

[komalkpal]

give me your email id .. i'll send you rpm file.

[brummie69]

Thank you.

Stupid question alert: what is my email id (is it my email address?).

If so, brummie69@hotmail.co.uk

Thank's for your help.

[brummie69]

Many thank's to Komalkpal for providing the Firefox rpm file.

Anyone know a simple way to install the dependencies that Meego seems to need before install?

[robotno]

Originally Posted by brummie69

Many thank's to Komalkpal for providing the Firefox rpm file.

Anyone know a simple way to install the dependencies that Meego seems to need before install?

What dependencies are missing? Search for them in rpmfind or something and download and install..
But if you have Firefox as an .rpm I asume MANY packages are missing. I think it is easier to download a tar.gz from mozilla.com and extract and just run the program.. There are some guide in this forum that explains how u make a .desktop file to so you can have it under the internet section of applications to..

[brummie69]

Sorry Robotno for not replying sooner but the issue was too great and I returned to Ubuntu.

The method for installing the other type of firefox linux file threw up many errors which I had no idea about, even after many hours on Google.

I am hoping that enough people will want Firefox instead of Chrome that they will put it in the Meego repositories. Mabye, however they have some sort of sponsorship deal with Google that prevents this - who knows!

Anyhow, I am determined to return t Meego when this issue is sorted.

Cheers!

[brummie69]

Sorry, I just re-checked, it was a tar.bz2 file I tried to install previously without success. Is a tar.gz more straight forward to install on Meego?

[mechanic]

It depends what's in the (archive) file, but if the contents are the same it's just the compression that's different and you need to uncompress using "tar -jxvf <somefilename>.bz2 " for that kind of file and "tar -zxvf <somefilename>.gz " for the gz archive file. With Firefox they have a 'tarball' that you can simply uncompress into your area of the file system and then look into the uncompressed directory for the 'firefox' file; check it's executable and then run it.

[zombie]

This is my way to install firefox 5.0 on meego 1.2 - not one click install, but works perfectly and is easy to perform:

- download firefox for linux from firefox official site http://www.mozilla.com/ (.tar.bz2)
- run terminal (you find in applications/system tools) and write there

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xvf firefox-5.0.tar.bz2
cp -r firefox ~
rm -rf firefox
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox-custom.desktop

- new empty file will open in gedit, paste there the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Firefox Web Browser custom
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Browse the Web
Exec=/home/YOUR-USER-NAME/firefox/firefox %u
Icon=firefox
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=firefox
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

* don't forget to replace YOUR-USER-NAME for your name you have chosen in meego (~/firefox/firefox cannot be used!)

[brummie69]

Thank you very much folks.

Ubuntu is coming off at the weekend and Meego is back on again.

Can anyone recommend a linux book that would give me a good understanding about the internal workings of this lovely O.S.?