in the command line i entered the very long path that i showed previously: from the menu editor i clicked on “internet” in the list on the left, and chose “new item” from the toolbar. Next i right clicked on the start button (or whatever you call it) and chose menu editor. so in my case the path to the file is /home//flock/flock-1.2.2.en-US.linux-i686/flock/flock finally, inside that folder is the executable “flock”. inside that folder was yet another folder called just “flock”. this created another folder in the directory called “flock-12.2.en-US.linux-i686”. right clicked on it and extracted it into the same directory. Placed it in a folder called “flock” that i had created in my home directory. I d/l-ed the file “flock-12.2.” from here: Read this thread and decided to give it a shot myself… Why don’t they package in an *.rpm file? (then you could install and How come the menu wasn’t updated (that is, where is the button to My best advice is to STEER CLEAR of Flock or contact the good folks atįlock and ask’em what the Flock is going on…that is: Whew!! i did all of that and Firefox still works!! So, now i’m a little afraid of it and what it MIGHT do, so i’m gonna delete: What it DID do was add /home/me/.flock for its settings… NOT tell me how to completely remove all code it installed, nor undoĬAUTION, this is just like the junk that comes out of Redmond… So, now i wanna get rid of it, completely…but the missing README does What a bunch of JUNK…nothing in that directory SEEMS to launch Flock… “Command” browse to the directory where you unpacked the *.gz file toĪnd select flock-bin, then hit “ok”…now when you click on Flockīrowse again and select gm, then ok, then try the icon–NOTHING happens General tab: type Flock in the line next to the icon KDE gear iconĪpplication tab: type description/comment as you wish and in the Right click on desktop, select “Create new” then “Link toĪpplications”, in the popped up dialog, select: So, i go to read the unpacked in directory’s README…there is NONE!!īut, if you are running KDE (you didn’t say) you can build your own NOW, what i don’t know is how one is supposed to know how to start it upĪgain…as the installer didn’t plop a clickable icon on myĭesktop…nor did it add an icon to my KDE/SUSE menu… Then another dialog popped up asking if i wanted Flock to be my Soon a dialog popped up asking if i wanted to import data from Firefox (and doesn’t) show up as executable in my konqueror] [NOTE: i didn’t change any file permissions…though, that file didn’t “download”, click on the Linux Penguin (TUX)ĭownload flock-1.2.2.ĭouble clicked on the file named flock (5.1 kb, dated ) I don’t know what you did wrong…what i did here wasĪt, LEFT side of page, near the orange button saying
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