58859 - README of Linux Installer WRONG

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Andreas J. Koenig]

I downloaded
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-insta
ller.tar.gz
and read the README that comes with it. It contains the following:

        2.Change to the mozilla directory and untar the archive. This will
        create a directory called "package".

and later

        4.Run the Mozilla Preview Release software with the run script:


It does not contain a directory "package" nor a binary "mozilla", as can be
seen here:

% tar tzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz
./mozilla-installer/mozilla-installer
./mozilla-installer/mozilla-installer-bin
./mozilla-installer/installer.ini
./mozilla-installer/README
./mozilla-installer/config.ini
./mozilla-installer/MPL-1.1.txt

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

Steve, do you know who is doing the readme for mozilla?

Comment 2

[timeless]

./mozilla is the script that you run after you install.

However that readme doesn't look like it's an installer readme. and these days 
I thought the directory was mozilla/ not package/

Is this the case for branch too? if so, rtm for the English readme. Assuming 
that translators are smarter than your average bear.

Would it be really silly to nominate relnote?

Comment 3

[rudman]

I never added a read me to the mozilla build. The read me should've been run
past me. The commercial build has the correct info. No need to nominate rtm or
relnote at this point. I'll fix it on the mozilla side (I don't think that
Windows and Mac have read me's for mozilla, incidentally...though I've been
using the commercial build solely for a while).

Comment 4

[Alex]

Attachment: readme with instructions for linux installer

Comment 5

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Bug 59137 may be of interest here. Here are all "installer README" bugs I found:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=33182&bug_id=45863&bug_id=58859&bug_id=59137&bug_id=42233

Comment 6

[James "Kovu" Russell]

I've fixed the Linux instructions already in a new Mozilla ReadMe for 59137, a
conglomeration of several documents. Once that fix gets checked in (we're
waiting on making sure the Mac instructions are okay), this bug will be fixed.

JR

Comment 7

[uamjet602]

Apparently the attached text got put in, which contains a weird URL that does
not work ( http://mozilla.org/.../relnotes/pv-1.html )

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New

Comment 9

[rudman]

-->Asa, for possible reassignment to kovu. 

Comment 10

[James "Kovu" Russell]

Accepting. I'll check this out.

James

Comment 11

[Leston Buell]

The "System Requirements" are also incorrect. The README says RedHat 6.0 or
later. Due to the new libstdc++ libraries required, mozilla can't install on any
RedHat system (through 7.1, i believe), without upgrading/downgrading these
libraries. (See bug 78874 for all the gory details.) The system requirements
should be changed to reflex the new reality, and they should specifically
mention the libstdc++ libraries required.

Comment 12

[Grace Bush]

*** Bug 73398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

Is this a DUP of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45863 or vice versa?

Comment 14

[Leston Buell]

Comment #4 has suggested corrected text which would fix this bug. (I don't know
if it addressed the bad URL problem.) Could someone please look at it? It was
uploaded over a year ago. This should be a cinchy thing to fix. 

Comment 15

[[e-mail]]

well as i said in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45863 I find it
strange to describe how to uncompress and untar the readme file that can 
only be viewed after being uncompressed and untarred. 
There should rather be some info about parameters to mozilla-installer
or use of config.ini. The README for untarring and uncompressing should be
in the download directory or web page where the tar can get downloaded from.

Comment 16

[Grace Bush]

reassigning to docs- Steve, assign where appropriate-
I think there are other similar bugs out there- fwiw, the N6.x readme is up to 
date

Comment 17

[rudman]

Jatin, could you please investigate some? It would be nice to get this off the
radar. You might want to ask endico to add info at the download site.

Comment 18

[Jatin Billimoria]

I believe the readme for Mozilla is pulled from different location then the
commerical builds, but since I don't maintain it, I'm not quite sure where.
Dawn, would you happen to know who maintains the Moz readme? 

Comment 19

[Alexander Opitz]

*** Bug 212951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: patch

this patch:
1. fixes a couple typos
2. updates system requirements for Linux (taken from
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.6/installation.html#linux)
3. removes anything mentioning Mac or Windows.	This file is not delivered to
anything but Linux, why is it here?

Comment 21

[Alexander Opitz]

@Andrew

We should also mention the su/sudo problem (like it stands on the installation
instruction webpage in the 'Multi-User Linux Installations' section).

It is there with all the stuff cause it was a copy of 'mozilla/README.txt' for a
long time.

Comment 22

[Leston Buell]

Could we please replace each instance of 
   "===========" 
in the file with 
   "= = = = = ="
please? This would fix the formatting problem of bug 136258, which was once
addressed, but then never got checked in.

Comment 23

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: patch v2

Thanks opi and Leston

Mentions not using sudo and converts "=====" to "= = ="

Comment 24

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: patch v2.1

this just updates bitrot and ftp:// => http://

Comment 25

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 143847 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2.1

Asa, this is more your territory that mine, please take a look.

Comment 26

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 143847 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2.1

looks good to me.

Comment 27

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 143847 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2.1

This doesn't need sr.

Comment 28

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

Comment on attachment 143847 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2.1

a=leaf, i can sneak this into the installer build

Comment 29

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Checking in README;
/cvsroot/mozilla/xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/README,v  <--  README
new revision: 1.6; previous revision: 1.5
done