I have just installed Mandriva 2006 which I thought came with mozilla or firefox web browsers but I found none. I put in the second CD of Mandriva which had all the rpm's for mozilla. I copied them from the CD to a folder on my Mandriva 2006 install. When I tried to use the urpmi update command it said all the packagers were installed, so where are they???

It's been a long time since I last used Mandrake, but if I remember correctly (and urpmi works anything like the installer utilities in other distros) urpmi will only see rpms in pre-defined locations (like on a cd) and you'll need to tell it the cd exists (add it to the database, just like you need to add repos for online updates and installs.

Hello,

The names are : mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird.

I installed following package : kdeadmin-kpackage. It offers a nice utility, kpackage, which helps in finding all information about installed packages (but not only). For example, a search for filenames containing "firefox" would give lots of results, and particularly in /usr/bin : "/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox".

Finding whether a package is installed can be done either by
rpm -q <packagename>
or
rpm -qa | grep <filenamepart>

To find out where the binary was installed to you can use
whereis <filename>

However, the orignal question was about package installation:
installing a package from the commandline can be done easiest by using the 'cd' command to go to the directory you placed the rpm's in. After that issue the following command:
rpm -Uvh <packagename>
Alternatively, if you wish to install all the rpm's in the directory:
rpm -Uvh *.rpm

ok,
Lots of command lines help finding files and packages. For example to find only commands, use better "which" than "whereis", the result will only show the effective command that would be executed. The kpackage utility is simpler for beginners.
Hope that will help Sfisher961.

There is no need to even use kpackage. Mandriva already provides rpmdrake, which provides a single location for all package management issues. Mandriva 2006 does have Firefox and Thunderbird. I am not sure where exactly they are on the free CD's because I have the powerpack dvd version.

I am still using MDK 10, but like reddazz said, have you tried logging into the mandrake control center Software manager and searching for that package? On MDK 10, doing this will give you an old version of firefox, so I am sure it would be there for you too. On mine, if there is an RPM on the CD, you don't need to copy them to the disk, you just install it from there and it will tell you what disk to insert.

If all else fails, you could just download it from mozilla - you just extract the tarball to a location and run the firefox or thunderbird file...

I did another install of mandriva including internet workstation on another computer and it was there. Thanks to all for input.

Set up your repositories at easyurpmi.zarb.org, follow the 3 steps, starting at the very top of the page, and then you can access any package that's available for mandriva.

once you have your repositories set up, type "urpmi mozilla-firefox" in konsole as root and you'll get firefox!

Mandriva does come with Firefox by default if you use KDE (and probably Gnome) but uses a customized version with the Galaxy theme. However, you could just get the latest version of Firefox at www.mozilla.com and follow these instructions to get it working:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=394822