Hi all, I'm a total beginner with linux distros and I booted Zenwalk from a flash drive today and have tried downloading and installing the latest version of firefox. I managed to download the .txz file but whenever it comes to installing it from the terminal or pkgtool, it says "Cannot install mozilla-firefox-66.0-x86_64-190319.txz: file not found"
This happens if and when I use the "installpkg" command or even the "#upgradepkg -install-new...."

Anybody know a fix?
Thank you

But to which directory?
I long forgot what the standard location was in firefox, but in my system all downloads go to some "tmp" directory, not even under my home. I configured that a long time ago.
Under "preferences you can see or change that location, or set it to "ask" so that you will asked every time where to download it to.
It is the "browser.download.dir" in your prefs.js file (in your firefox profile).

1. To find out where it was downloaded, launch the command in a console
and from your home directory:
2. Copy the path displayed and, as root, launch the 'installpkg' command
by feeding it the path found above

It doesn't have to be in/under your home dir, /tmp and /var/tmp are possible too.

If you use Firefox files will be downloaded to ~/Downloads so do and then run installpkg.

As root, type:
I twill take some time to complete. Then to know where is the file you downloaded, type:Then to learn how to find files, type as regular user:
And to know how to use info, type:
Or for a shorter introduction
And to get information about the man application, type one of these commands:

Although updating the locate database never is bad, for this one case a simple 'find' command would be faster, as already proposed in this thread.

...if it's located within the location find is set to search (which, the file is likely in the home directory). However, if the file is outside of the location specified (or they're searching the whole filesystem), it might be faster to update the locate database and use that.

I also know that OP is using zenwalk, and I don't know if it has a cron entry to run updatedb like Slackware does, but if it does and OP kept the computer turned on and the database has already been updated (since it runs by default at 4am), locate would be extremely fast.

locate does not search in the whole filesystem neither, see /etc/updatedb.conf.

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I never realized it didn't search /tmp/ by default, but I guess that makes sense. Thanks!