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Bug 45863
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
Need updated README for linux installer
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(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect, P3)
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(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
WORKSFORME
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(Reporter: granrosebugs, Assigned: asa)
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A mozilla contributor tested the linux installer for us as a first time user and has the following comments. Bottom line, we need to make sure we have the right README for the installer, and that it is being packaged correctly as well. The Netscape 6 build will need its own README as well. User comments below: 2: When unpacking mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar i find the following files: -rwxrwxr-x 1 dark dark 89916 Jul 18 19:00 mozilla-installer-bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 dark dark 1494 Jul 18 19:00 mozilla-installer -rw-rw-r-- 1 dark dark 3417 Jul 18 19:00 README -rw-rw-r-- 1 dark dark 30869 Jul 18 19:00 MPL-1.1.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 dark dark 4297 Jul 18 19:01 config.ini The README file is the wrong README file. It's the file that should accompany the prepacked binary of mozilla. It is NOT a readme-file that has anything at all to do at all with the installer. This was very confusing before i realized the error. The erronously added README file describes how to unpack the binary, and that alone. (In addition it contains errors, user is asked to move and copy the tar.gz files twice - quite needlessly since they are already unpacked at the point where one is asked to copy them again. But that has nothing to do with installer.) This needs to be done: A README file *WITH* information about installer should be writtten (if it isn't) and later included with the installer.tar.gz file. This new README file should include the following information about the installtion routine: -information about the fact that installer will actually itself download files via ftp -tell user WHERE these files are initially *temporarily* placed (in a subdir called .tmp.xi.o) -tell the user that if he/she wish to install in the default path, /usr/local/mozilla, the installation should be started by user root, and furthermore that it starts when you write ./mozilla-installer -some lines about the progress-meter not being exact (actually it will just hang in a fixed position all the time during download, which for all users on slow connections will be THE most time-demanding part of the installation. This "frozen progress-meter" can otherwise easily confuse users, and lead them to think the installation is hanging. An additional paragraph for the README seems to then have to include additional info about "post installation" stating something like this: -- "If you install in the default directory, or any other directory where only user root normally have write-access, you must also start Mozilla one time as user root, before others users can start the program. This will generate a set of files required for later use." --
Accepting for now. I don't recall writing a Read Me for mozilla, but senility may be the issue. I wrote one for the commercial builds (at least for Mac and Windows). Could you please attach the read me?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
attached the README that's found in the tar.gz containing the installer. It's said to be just a placeholder till a README for installer has been made. However, it's wrong and confusing either way. (Look at the instructions about copying that takes part there - done twice)
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Comment 5•24 years ago
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nominating nsbeta2 as this is an offshoot of nsbeta2+ bug 32475.
Keywords: nsbeta2
Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar. rudman, please confirm if the right READ ME is in linux commercial build or still an open issue.
Whiteboard: [nsbeta2+]
Confirmed that the correct read me is in the commercial build. Putting as nsbeta- per Jan. Leaving as assigned to me for now, to deal with mozilla build...will talk with Asa re: mozilla read me.
Whiteboard: [nsbeta2+] → [nsbeta2-]
proposing for 0.9 and based on the abundance of open readme bugs marking mostfreq. CC'ing myself
Whiteboard: [nsbeta2-]
Comment 9•24 years ago
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Removing mostfreq - if there are open README bugs, please mark them dependent on (or dupes of) this bug. When you've got ten, mark it mostfreq again :-) Gerv
Keywords: mostfreq
Comment 10•23 years ago
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Reassigning to Asa. Issues may already be addressed by bug 59137.
Assignee: rudman → asa
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Comment 11•23 years ago
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I just checked the readme of linux build 2002012606, file mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz and the instructions in the README file are still completely wrong. It is also not very helpful to include instructions on unzipping and untarring into a file that will only be seen after unzipping and untarring. Rather, give sytem requirements and tell users about installation options (e.g. I read the README because I wanted to know if it is possible to pass parameters to the mozilla-installer script that would let me automate the process. I am installing nightlies quite often into the same place and would want to do it without user intervention).
Comment 12•22 years ago
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The new Read Me has got r= and sr= in Bug 72037. Reporter, can we close this bug? Might want to see the new Read Me in 72037 before you decide.
Comment 13•21 years ago
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I took a look at the README for the 2003013108 build and it is the same as for the other builds. It looks fine, but then again I am not a Linux user.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Comment 14•21 years ago
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Yes, also the Linux part of the README make sense nowadays.
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