Flock is a Mozilla Firefox-based web browser not yet officially out, but is available as a developer’s preview.
This guide will help you, running Ubuntu, to install Flock.
First, run over to http://www.flock.com/developer/linux.php and download the latest version of Flock in your home directory for easy explaination.
In this installation we’re going to be using Flock 0.5.12.
Open up your terminal and use the following string of commands:
cd /opt
sudo tar -xzvf /home/yourname/flock-0.4.10.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /opt/flock/flock /usr/bin/flock
Now you’ve successfully installed Flock, but you want to add it to your Ubuntu Applications menu!
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/flock.desktop
Now, add the following to the new file:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flock Browser
Comment=Flock Browser
Exec=/opt/flock/flock %u
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/opt/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
Categories=Application;Network
MimeType=text/html; text/xml; application/xhtml+xml; application/xml; application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml; application/rss+xml; application/rdf+xml;x-directory/webdav; x-directory/webdav-prefer-directory; image/gif; image/jpeg; image/png
After that, You should see Flock in your applications menu under ‘Internet’
Have Fun
Antonio
