Today, I’d like to follow up by asking the Forum this: Is Pierre’s direction to /usr/lib correct? Or…even if it’s perfectly reasonable…is that the typical directory? I ask because I've noticed that some other packages I've installed (FreeOffice and Geary, to name two) are now found in /usr/share. You can then move it to /user/lib/waterfox ( you may need SU privileges) & then create a Short-cut to the executable file, on your Desktop. Then, once you have extracted the compressed *.tar.gz2 file to your /home, and checked that all is working A.ok Inside one of the folders, in the one called 'browser' and then 'icons', you will find a decent looking icon. Set up a menu launcher to that 'waterfox' file so it launches from the menu. It will now offer to import your Firefox data.ĥ. Doubleclicking that file will start the browser.Ĥ. Inside that is a file also called waterfox. Extract it to the location of your choice, keeping the directory structure intact. Download the compressed archive from You'll get a. In a tutorial posted back in January of 2018, forum moderator Moem provided these 5 steps for installing the Waterfox browser from a tarball file (I am not concerned at this point with Step 4):ġ. From within that, the Waterfox file boots the browser and it works fine.which leads me to think that all I really need to do is move that Waterfox directory and all its files to where all the rest of the software resides? Would that be correct? And would that be in /usr/bin? Or would it be /usr/share? I'm thinking the latter. From what was in the Downloads folder, everything extracted but now what I'm left with is a bunch of files a Waterfox directory within the Downloads directory. At that point I probably got a little "click happy". So I downloaded it from their website.and found the file was a "tarball". Via MX Linux I found the Waterfox browser and liked it (not as resource-intensive as Firefox) but it's apparently not available even with Synaptic. All good and all done.so I've moved on to installing additional software. But with a little more confidence, last night I decided to take a second laptop (this time a Lenovo Flex 3) and do a dual-boot install of Linux Mint. ![]() I decided that MX Linux was a better choice for that computer. ![]() ![]() Okay, I'm back! I decided that the Acer Aspire One that I was using for my initial foray into Linux (about 5 weeks ago) was considerably overmatched by Linux Mint.
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