> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
