Other Help Topics :: Installing programs? (volvis==newb)

Hello

I was hoping someone could show me to a start how to install programs on this thing.

I installed DSL on hard drive on my old 233/66 Pentium2, and I'm now in process of upgrading the bundled software. I'm downloading the latest tar.gz for Firefox as I type, and I'd really appreciate some hints what to do with it.

Cheers,
volvis

I think you should be able to create a directory called "optional" on your hdd and place your DSL programs in it.Works for me.

Usually tar.gz files are source archives, which take some work to install on DSL. With Firefox it should be a precompiled installer.
Extract the archive (tar xzf firefox-1.0.2.installer.tar.gz).
Enter the firefox-installer directory.
Install with "sudo ./firefox-installer".
If root can't run the installer you can install without the "sudo" part...but the only places you can install it would be /opt or /home/dsl (not a bad idea really...I have firefox installed in /opt/firefox and it works well)

With a harddrive install, you might want to consider using apt and/or synaptic for installing programs....i hear it's much easier.

hi,
i am really new to dsl and a linux noob...
but i got dsl running on a pentiumII-266 laptop with 64mb ram and a 4,3gb hard disk as hd install. i've made a swap partition and a backup partion, and with lilo a dual boot to a small win98 works.
now i tried to install a actual firefox (1.0.2), but there is no way to do it...a lib called libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is missing, it tells by install-try. and i haven't found a way to install it. anyone a tipp for me?

original here.