Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:51:22 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <albi@scii.nl>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of albi@scii.nl > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:02 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? > > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:41:52 +0100 > Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > > I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to > > install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've > > looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the > > product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently). > > > 1) if you want to use the plain FreeBSD-version you have basically 2 > (easy) options : > a) if you're sticking to RELEASE, a pkg_add -r firefox should work > b) cd /usr/ports/www/firefox/ ; make install clean > Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff. > 2) if you want to use the linux-version, check the /usr/ports/www/ > linux-firefox port > You don't want to use this version. It's slower. Ted
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