Installing/accessing Firefox on Centos 5 not working

[thomas.bankton]

Followed these instructions

http://tecadmin.net/install-firefox-on-linux/



everytime I try to extract archieve on system. It says

http://postimg.org/image/6sr3tq5ij/

[avij]

If it says "Image" you have very odd problems.

Seriously though, yum install firefox would currently give you Firefox 38 on CentOS 5. I would suggest sticking to the CentOS-provided firefox.

[thomas.bankton]

I edited it. the image would not load.

I had been dealing with this for days. I could'nt install vnc server on it at first. Was stressful.

[avij]

See if yum install bzip2 helps with the extraction issue. I have a bad feeling you will run into issues if you try to use the Mozilla-provided firefox, but it's a free world..

[TrevorH]

Firefox 38 is available via yum for CentOS 5 and since it's the ESR version, it already has fixes for any vulnerabilities that might have been fixed by 39.

We don't recommend installation from tarballs or source.

[thomas.bankton]

ok I installed firefox using yum install firefox but I now can't scroll down
Picture here...

http://postimg.org/image/52ybm1mgx/

And I don't even see the icon on my desktop(Gui)

[owl102]

I now can't scroll down

The xterm window seens to be higher than your screen size. So make the xterm window smaller and move it to a place on the screen where you can see the whole window.

And I don't even see the icon on my desktop(Gui)

This is because you don't have a desktop, at least there is none on the screenshot you have posted.

[thomas.bankton]

How do I install a desktop then. I thought I installed gnome. with the gui command.

How do I make the xterm window smaller

[thomas.bankton]

I used this to install gnome

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

Heres what I got. Its still not looking like a desktop

http://postimg.org/image/8tlz11fjr/

[chemal]

You need to make sure your vnc server will start a gnome session. Something like

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#!/bin/bash
gnome-session &

in ~/.vnc/xstartup (don't forget to make this file executable!) should do the trick.