307657 - Wrong installation guide for Linux in Release Notes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Benedikt Kantus]

In the Firefox 1.5b1 release notes, Linux users are told to extract the tarball
firefox-1.5b1.installer.tar.gz, though the file offered for download is called
firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz.

A possible solution would be this:

Index: mozilla-org/html/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta1.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta1.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 1.5beta1.html
--- mozilla-org/html/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta1.html	9 Sep 2005
05:08:03 -0000	1.19
+++ mozilla-org/html/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta1.html	9 Sep 2005 09:05:36
-0000
@@ -95,9 +95,7 @@
       <p>Extract the tarball and run the installer like so:
       <p>
         <code>
-          tar -xzvf firefox-1.5b1.installer.tar.gz<br>
-          cd firefox-installer<br>
-          ./firefox-installer
+          tar -xzvf firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz<br>
         </code></p>
       <p>If you have Nautilus set up to run Executable Text Files you can just 
          double click firefox-installer to run.</p>

I haven't found any duplicates, but feel free to mark this as a dupe if you find
another bug like this.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Both filenames exist; is some page promoting the wrong one?  Where did you get
the link that give you the one without installer in the name?

Comment 2

[Benedikt Kantus]

David, in fact it's http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

There's a list right up on the page with download links for Windows, Linux,
MacOS etc. When you click on the Linux link, a script directly leads you to the
file without "installer" in its name.

Comment 3

[u115577]

*** Bug 308241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** Bug 314770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

bug 314770 comment 2 says:
We need to fix the release notes to say that the tar.gz is the official
download and remove the stuff about the linux installer. See bug 311969.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Fixed.