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[El Guru (Al)]

I want to install Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3) nighties on Ubuntu.  I am on the the FTP server and see the Linux-i686 builds.  I see there are two choices:

firefox-3.0a5pre.en-US.linux-i686.complete.mar

OR

firefox-3.0a5pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 

which do I download or is there something special I need to do?

[Ryan Wagner]

You don't want the mar file because that is just the nightly update. Pieter actually wrote an article for the site on installing TAR files where he noted that:

Some programs such as Firefox come in .tar.gz packages but don’t have to be compiled. You can just extract the file anywhere and start using the program immediately. You can check whether a program will have to be compiled or not by searching for the following files: configure, autogen.sh, Makefile and Jamfile. If you don’t find any of these files, it probably doesn’t need to be compiled. Just search for the program executable (in the case of Firefox: ‘firefox’) to run the program.

[El Guru (Al)]

I'll look into this more once I can get Ubuntu running again (see the Installing Ubuntu thread for my woes).

[Pieter]

Just extract firefox-3.0a5pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 somewhere on your computer, open the newly created 'firefox' folder and double-click the file called 'firefox'. That should work. No installation necessary.