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I installed Waterfox but it is not available as an application, just a folder. How do I get it to work like a normal app? Thanks in advance.

Goolag
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  • did you install it or did you download the source? we need more information as to what you did? if it is installed did you try to run it? – John Orion Dec 12 '17 at 00:42
  • @JohnOrion Waterfox is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. – Chai T. Rex Dec 12 '17 at 00:47
  • yeah i removed that .. just found that .. seems to come in a tar.gz file .. trying to download to see if its a precompiled or if it needs to be compiled – John Orion Dec 12 '17 at 00:47
  • @JohnOrion All I did was download the tar.gz file off their site. Not sure how to get it working from here. – Goolag Dec 12 '17 at 00:51
  • @JohnOrion I also tried to install Firefox and I have the same issue. There is no application to use, it just comes with a folder full of files. – Goolag Dec 12 '17 at 00:57
  • creating an answer now .. be done soon :D – John Orion Dec 12 '17 at 00:58
  • @EliahKagan Ill give that a try, but I have the same issue with everything I install. Even when I got Firefox, it just came as a folder with files. No application to open and use. – Goolag Dec 12 '17 at 01:04
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    @Goolag you seem to indicate that you are having additional problems installing anything. Could you run the following in a terminal sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox. If those commands give you errors you should ask a new question about the root cause of them. – J. Starnes Dec 12 '17 at 01:15
  • dont know how you are installing firefox .. but to install firefox in ubuntu you just open a terminal and type sudo apt-get install firefox and it will install it and ad shortcuts for it on the menu ... lol J.Stames .. you beat me to it – John Orion Dec 12 '17 at 01:15
  • The solution that J. Stames gave is a better solution because then apt will update it when there is an update .. the waterfox will not update since its a standalone download – John Orion Dec 12 '17 at 01:17

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To run this you will have to create your own shortcut to it.

You can right click on your desktop and Create a launcher

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you would probably be better off browsing to the file with the little folder icon .. you are looking for the file that says waterfox .. in the waterfox folder ..

it most likely will ask you to make it executable when you first run the shortcut .. say make it executable and you should be all set

you can add an icon too if you can find one for it or just leave it as the default "no icon"

it can be run from terminal also by opening the directory in terminal and typing ./waterfox but the terminal has to stay open or the browser will close and the terminal will show a bunch of stuff you dont have to worry about

If you use Nautilus for your file manager then launch Nautilus and click on Computer and locate the application you want to run in /usr/share/applications click on it to highlight it and press Ctrl+C to copy it. Then click on Desktop on the left and press Ctrl+V to paste it. Once pasted .. right click on it and go to Properties and then the Permissions tab .. and make sure that the Execute check box is checked then close the properties and Nautilus and your icon should be on your desktop and functional

John Orion
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