Re: Linux Mozilla Firefox installer

"J.O. Aho" <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:17:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
none wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I have written a simple but useful installer script for Mozilla Firefox
> 0.8 under linux.  just copy these files into the directory of the
> downloaded binaries and type 'sh install'
> 
> It will search for plugins too in common directories and isntall them to
> the new directory.
> 
> Feel free to redistribute this if you like. I am donating it to the
> Mozilla team.

> #!/bin/sh
> ...
> fi

Nice, but why waiste harddrive space?
I assume by looking at your script that the firefox script don't check the 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, in that case, use symlinks.
A better solution is to ask where the user wants to have his/her firefox 
installed.


  //Aho