Linux Newbie Needs Help W/Fedora Core 5 & Firefox

[fiestaball]

Okay,

I am brand new to Linux and specifically Fedora Core5. I currently have Firefox loaded as part of the distro and wish to upgrade to the latest version. I am logged into my account (which is not root) and have downloaded the latest version from Mozilla (1.5.0.4) but cannot seem to install per the instructions on their site.

I need a newbie guide with detailed instructions on how to install. When I do the following from the terminal logged in with my account I get this:

[Eric@localhost ~]$ tar -xzvf firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz
tar: firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


WTF is it doing? I see it cannot open no such file or directory. The tar file is on my desktop and my pwd is Desktop.

What am I doing wrong? I am 100% sure the OS knows what it is doing but I have no clue. How do I do the install as root? I have attempted to logout of my account and tried the same process logged in as root to no avail.

Thank you GotApexer's.

[Airencracken]

Well, first of all you should be running as the superuser. Also can you copy and paste the exact terminal commands you're using, more likely than not you just have the file directory wrong (done it myself, suse user )

[InfiniteNothing]

It looks like the file doesn't exist. Make sure it's there (ls -l). After you've got that figured out try "gunzip firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz"

Also, this goes in the "Tech Support" forum. The thread could but its fine here.

[Nija]

you can log in as root by typing su at your terminal prompt.

[Pemolis]

Had an issue (and still can't figure how how to install it per their instructions, so wound up using autopacker)

http://autopackage.org/packages/

Its a 4 step install (you have to install the autopackage manager first)
http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/

Firefox is here
http://autopackage.org/packages/

There was a way to yum autopackage but I forgot the command.

But use autopackage. really easy.

[fiestaball]

Thank you for all your help. Still have yet to try it at work and discovered when I went home I was in the wrong path for the install. I was logged in with my user account and not as root and then was not on the desktop. I realized that Linux was case sensitive. When I did a cd /desktop I was not in the correct directory.

Thanks again for your help.

[Airencracken]

No worries bro. Linux ppl can often be really condecending and rude, but hopefully with a wider adoption of the OS this will change. I know that I'm enjoying my *nix experience and I hope you are too.

[InfiniteNothing]

To prevent this confusion in the future, use absolute paths
ie:
wget /root/firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz would put it into /root/
but
wget firefox-1.5.0.4.tar.gz would put it where ever you were currently.

[Memo]

Also, when typing in console hit TAB and it will autocomplete, so you can type like firefox- (hit tab) and boom

[Nija]

Also, when typing in console hit TAB and it will autocomplete, so you can type like firefox- (hit tab) and boom

I love that!

[Pemolis]

Was this issue resolved, and if it was, what was the step by step command to fix it? (I always want something to go back to when I forget something)

[InfiniteNothing]

Uh well, the leason I gleened from this thread is to pay attention to where you are downloading files.