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> apt-get install firefox As I noted in another thread, I see that as a solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist. Installing and upgrading applications in a traditional UNIX environment has become quite hard. So a lot of effort has been put into making the hard easy. For different reasons, the same is true on Windows, and they've come up with a different way to make the hard thing easy. And on Mac OS, installing applications has always been easy. But the people writing cross-platform applications have spent a lot of time and effort coming up with packaging schemes and installers, and so have transferred both of them over to Mac OS X. Please, don't do that. > 1. start a browser (in this case Firefox) > 2. enter a URL (getfirefox.com) Try http://macupdate.com/ instead. You can update the rest of the apps you use at the same time. > 3. click a link (download) > 4. wait for the download to finish > 5. double click an icon (dmg) Click on the name in the download window. > 6. drag another icon to the Applications folder And you get to say WHERE you want it, it doesn't just vanish into the dark forest of /usr. So when you want to sync up your Mac at work with the software on your Mac at home you just rsync --rsh=ssh home.example.com::/Local /Local > 7. confirm that I want to replace the old one > 8. close the Finder window again Click on the "eject" button next to the volume name. > 9. select two icons (dmg and mounted volume) > 10. drag them to Trash Drag the DMG to "/Local/Installed" so you have a clean copy, and when you clicked eject you unmounted the DMG and closed the window. > And after all that hard labour, all that's upgraded is just one program! http://macupdate.com/ or http://versiontracker.com/ I prefer macupdate, Versiontracker is a bit tarpit-ish. > As far as I am concerned, Apple's Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows XP > are not yet ready for the Desktop. This is too much hard and confusing > work to confront newbies with. I'm lucky to be a geek and understand the > entire 10 step procedure! The 8-step procedure is easier for newbies than "apt-get install firefox".
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