On Sunday 03 January 2016 13:14:39 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:57:54 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:37:06 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > >> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:02:59 -0500 > >> > >> Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> >Greetings all; > >> > > >> >Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel > >> > has been so emasculated that it asks about flash everytime, > >> > bringing up a requester that has a button labeled "allow and > >> > remember", but it doesn't remember, you have to do it for every > >> > flash presented. Half of the time you click on it, the site has > >> > timed out, so you hit reload hoping you can click the ok quick > >> > enough to make it work THIS time. Usually it doesn't, so you > >> > never get to read or see that story. > >> > > >> >And some news sites stories links are totally ignored, and some > >> > get a "request entity to large" whatever the heck that is. > >> > > >> >So I installed googles chromium, but it crashes and you have to > >> > use the reload button, hundreds of times a day. > >> > > >> >Konqueror is as emasculated as iceweasel. > >> > > >> >So I downloaded the vivaldi-beta deb, and tried to use apt-get to > >> >install, but that spit out several dozen pages of E: lines and > >> > didn't. > >> > > >> >So I stepped into the deb with mc, and copied its contents to the > >> >directories it would have been put in, even ran the postinst > >> > thing. Didn't run from a cli. > >> > > >> >Poking around in the installed stuff, I find an invalid link > >> >in /opt/vivaldi-beta/libwidevinecdm.so to > >> > /opt/google/libwidevinecdm.so, on checking that I find I don't > >> > have it, as the google stuff in /opt is, and I quote > >> > "/opt/google/fucked-google" which is an empty directory! > >> > > >> >Does anyone have a clue what that is all about? googles idea of > >> > an easter egg that disappears if you register chromium which I > >> > assume turns it into chrome? > >> > > >> >Comments please, and what browser are you all using that doesn't > >> > hassle the user to death, it Just Works, like firefox did 3 years > >> > ago. > >> > > >> >Thanks all; > >> > > >> >Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > >> Best thing I have found is a fork of firefox called Pale Moon. It > >> uses some of the plugins and extensions from firefox, but around > >> version 25. I installed it over a month ago, and have not had a > >> crash since then. > >> > >> http://www.palemoon.org/ > > > >Downloaded and installed the installer to my /home directory. On > > running it I am unable to progress beyond the download of the > > tar.bz2, which I have now done twice because after the download, the > > installer can't find it! > > > >Why? Because it asks for my sudo password, and when iceweasel > > downloads it, iceweasel is running as a sudo root, and puts the > > download in /root/Downloads. It cautions about running the installer > > as root in the readme's it showed me a few times. I have no access > > to the tarball as me, so whats next? > > > >Thank you. > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Throw that installer back in your /home. Run it as non-root, move the > first window out of the way, and click on install.
I have done that, about 6 times now, it opens no other windows UNTIL I have given it my sudo passwd. Since I have 2 copies of it sitting in /root/Downloads I think I'll have a root mc session move one of them back and if needed change the perms. Then look at it and see if I can do it without that broken script. Or better yet, edit the script if I can see whats wrong. Thanks. IMO whoever wrote that script needs to take another look at it since they do NOT want root to install it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>